The fall of Japan

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1. dreamcompilerOct 2018
   Don't know that book but will read it. "The Fall of Japan" by William Craig is also excellent, and it confirms everything you wrote above.

   One of the strangest episodes was that the generals didn't want to surrender even after the atomic bombs fell. Only the Emperor's personal intervention caused the surrender to happen.

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2. TMWNNNov 2023
   Reading:

   Craig, The Fall of Japan

   Price, Battle of Britain Day: 15 September 1940

   Pratchett, Discworld series (finished four volumes)

   Recently finished:

   Craig, Enemy at the Gates

   MacGregor, Checkpoint Charlie

   Jones, Colossus (Incredibly prescient 1966 novel predicting ASI; the 1970 film adaptation is better, but the novel has more insights into the AI's similarity with LLMs)

   Suarez, Daemon

   Moss, Nineteen Weeks: America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940

   Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

   Pascal, Showstopper: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT

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