Last Mission to Tokyo

Michel Paradis’s Last Mission to Tokyo , a “superb” ( The Wall Street Journal ) and “engrossing...richly researched” ( The New York Times Book Review ) account of a key but underreported moment in World War II: The Doolittle Raids and the international war crimes trial in 1945 that defined the Japanese-American relations and changed legal history. In 1942, freshly humiliated from the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States was in search of a plan. President Roosevelt, determined to show the wo