James M. Scott is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Black Snow, Rampage, Target Tokyo, The War Below, and The Attack on the Liberty, and coauthor with Jack Carr of Targeted: Beirut. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.
"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 individuals of all stations and nationalities to
survey the global, technological, and moral backdrop of the
cataclysm, including the searing experiences of Japanese trapped in
a gigantic firestorm. This riveting account illuminates an
historical moment of profound contemporary relevance."
*Richard B. Frank, author of Tower of Skulls: A History of the
Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942*
"The firebombing of Japan is one of the most gut-wrenching and
controversial chapters in modern history. James M. Scott’s Black
Snow is a brilliant, fast moving, utterly absorbing, and
devastating account of the full price of victory in the
Pacific."
*Alex Kershaw, New York Times best-selling author of Against All
Odds*
"James M. Scott brings to life with painstaking detail and humanity
the terror and plight and hopes of Japanese citizens in their
cities, and US pilots in the air—their duties, their misgivings,
their conflicted reactions, their sense of victory, and their moral
survival off that victory. You realize you’ve never read this story
before in this way, with these long views of history and such
collar-grabbing intensity. Black Snow raises profound questions
about how peace is made during one of America’s most turbulent
periods on the world stage, and it speaks clearly to us today. You
won’t put it down."
*Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times best-selling author of In Harm's
Way and Horse Soldiers*
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