{"product_id":"book-ge5p","title":"Black Snow","description":"Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Snow\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of this devastating operation, orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay, who famously remarked: \"If we lose the war, we'll be tried as war criminals.\" James M. Scott reconstructs in granular detail that horrific night, and describes the development of the B-29, the capture of the Marianas for use as airfields, and the change in strategy from high-altitude daylight \"precision\" bombing to low-altitude nighttime incendiary bombing. Most importantly, the raid represented a significant moral shift for America, marking the first time commanders deliberately targeted civilians—which helped pave the way for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on first-person interviews with American pilots and bombardiers and Japanese survivors, air force archives, and oral histories never before published in English, Scott delivers a harrowing and gripping account, and his most important and compelling work to date.","brand":"Highbridge Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49357825343792,"sku":"BDge5p","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49357825409328,"sku":"ZEge5p","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49357825442096,"sku":"ZMge5p","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ge5p-cover.jpg?v=1765864397","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ge5p","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}