From a Wall Street Journal review by Jonathan W. Jordan of the book by John C. McManus titled “To the Ends of the Earth”:

The last act of America’s war with Japan impels a special sense of operatic tragedy. Fire bombings, mass starvation and atomic fallout formed a blistering whirlwind reaped by an empire that had launched a savage war in China and driven Western powers out of the Pacific Rim at bayonet point.