{"product_id":"1945-9780345494795","title":"1945","description":"America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.\u003cbr\u003eBut Japan has only begun to fight. . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame-their aim: to take America down with them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Robert Conroy's brilliantly imagined epic tale of World War II, Emperor Hirohito's capitulation is hijacked by extremists and a weary United States is forced to invade Japan as a last step in a war that has already cost so many lives. As the Japanese lash out with tactics that no one has ever faced before-from POWs used as human shields to a rain of kamikaze attacks that take out the highest-value target in the Pacific command-the invasion's success is suddenly in doubt. As America's streets erupt in rioting, history will turn on the acts of a few key players from the fiery front lines to the halls of Washington to the shadowy realm of espionage, while a mortally wounded enemy becomes the greatest danger of all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for Robert Conroy's 1901 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Likely to please both military history and alternative history buffs . . . The writing . . . keeps us turning the pages.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Booklist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fascinating . . . skillfully crafted.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Oakland Press \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Packed with action.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Detroit News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Conroy\u003c\/b\u003e was a business and economic history teacher who lived in Detroit. His alternate-history novels include \u003ci\u003e1901, 1862, 1945, 1942, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRed Inferno: 1945\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 2014.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491689107730,"sku":"9780345494795","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e37a78dd-bdef-48e2-bb33-599130ec52d0.jpg?v=1730549695","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/1945-9780345494795","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}