The debut novel by lifelong WWII buff and Harvard graduate historian Michael Dana Kennedy takes readers deep into the highest echelons of the campaign in the Pacific. The war is at a crossroads, as the Allied brass must make a decision that could finally bring the war to an end. The combined Allied forces have two options: the first is to surround Japan and suffocate her; the other is Operation Downfall, a full-blown invasion of the Japanese archipelago.