"Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945. James Scott deftly employs sharply etched portraits ...

Of the lingering controversies of World War II, perhaps the most intensely debated is America’s bombing of Japan’s cities. The two most dramatic forms—the firebombing raids in the spring of 1945, ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...