Black Snow : Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb, Paperback by Scott, James M., ISBN 1324074604, ISBN-13 9781324074601, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were SnowDrawing on first-person interviews with American pilots and bombardiers and Japanese survivors, air force archives, and oral histories never before published in English, Scott delivers a harrowing and gripping account, and his most important and compelling work to date.