To that end, here's your Hiroshima Day reading list:
Blankets of Fire, by Kenneth Wirrell: Chronicles the 20th Air Forces strategic bombing campaign, Curtis LeMay, (PBUH) figured out that most Japanese structures were made of wood, hello incendiary bombs. By March of 1945 the 20th Air Force was taking out two or three cities a week and by the end of the war they had annihilated 50% of Japan's Urban area.
Neptune's Inferno, by James Hornfishcer: Chronicles the naval battles around the Solomon Islands in excruciating detail. Just an excellent book. There will never be better book on the subject.
The Fleet at Flood Tide, by James Hornfischer: Begins in 1944 with the Saipan campaign. By this point in the war the Pacific fleet is massive, battle hardened and has the momentum of a steamroller. Just a great title.
MacArthur, By Arthur Herman: fifty years after the great man's death a biography free of the biases of the time. Well worth the read.
Oh, might we also suggest:
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