Summary of Barrett Tillman's When the Shooting Stopped

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#1 The American Pacific Fleet was edgy as rumors circulated that Tokyo was about to surrender. The Japanese empire had been shrinking since 1942, and the elected government was irrelevant.

#2 The two-week Allied conference in Potsdam, Germany, which had begun on July 17, finished on August 2. The conference was primarily focused on the immediate postwar situation in Europe, but it also required Tokyo’s unconditional surrender.

#3 Truman’s British counterpart during the Potsdam Conference was Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill was a product of an aristocratic father and a promiscuous American society beauty mother. He had little experience in government, but he had killed in combat and retained an inner fierceness that sometimes belied his jowly exterior.

#4 Churchill was a war hero, but he was also a hard-working lawyer, financier, and politician. He had yearned for military service, but was refused at age 31. He survived the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, and was wounded fighting in Iraq at war’s end.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822544291

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#1

The American Pacific Fleet was edgy as rumors circulated that Tokyo was about to surrender. The Japanese empire had been shrinking since 1942, and the elected government was irrelevant.

#2

The two-week Allied conference in Potsdam, Germany, which had begun on July 17, finished on August 2. The conference was primarily focused on the immediate postwar situation in Europe, but it also required Tokyo’s unconditional surrender.

#3

Truman’s British counterpart during the Potsdam Conference was Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill was a product of an aristocratic father and a promiscuous American society beauty mother. He had little experience in government, but he had killed in combat and retained an inner fierceness that sometimes belied his jowly exterior.

#4

Churchill was a war hero, but he was also a hard-working lawyer, financier, and politician. He had yearned for military service, but was refused at age 31. He survived the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, and was wounded fighting in Iraq at war’s end.

#5

In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Attlee agreed to a coalition government with Churchill’s Conservatives. In 1942, Attlee became deputy prime minister, and he earned admiration for reducing bureaucratic duplication and simplifying the mechanics of government administration.

#6

The ship was lost in the Philippines, and its crew was adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles west of Guam and 550 miles east of Leyte. They were exposed to searing sun and frigid nights, and more men died from injuries, dehydration, and hypothermia than from sharks.

#7

The sight and sound of an aircraft brought surging elation to survivors on August 2, as did the first rescue ship, the destroyer escort Cecil J. Doyle, which arrived on scene that night.

#8

The United States had invested enormous resources in two potentially war-winning weapon programs: the atom bomb and the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Together they amounted to a cost of approximately $5 billion, or more than $70 billion today.

#9

On the day of