Books by Evan Thomas

4. Evan Thomas, Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II .  The real topic of this book is the decision to use the atomic bomb twice against Japan.  Riveting, and provides plenty of detail on the Japanese side, even if some of the interpretative choices are controversial.  The author also makes a good point about ending the war sooner, namely it saved a large number of Southeast Asian lives, arguably about 250,000 a month, due to the tyrannical Japanese occupatio...