Eight Days in August

The final week of World War II unfolded like a political thrillerwith millions of lives hanging in the balance.By early August 1945, Japan had been chased across the Pacific, hemmed in on the Asian mainland, and isolated by the fall of Nazi Germany. But it did not surrender. Even after an atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima, Japan held on and seemed prepared to fight to the last man. For Japan to rai...