"In the first edition of his path breaking volume, Giangreco demolished the revisionist myth that Truman's depiction of an invasion as a looming catastrophe was a gross exaggeration, a 'postwar creation' designed to cover up the real reasons for using the bombs. Citing a variety of hitherto untapped sources (including documentation on the production of 500,000 Purple Heart medals for the invasion's dead and wounded), Giangreco showed that Truman's vision was amply borne out by the projected casualty figures military and civilian planners routinely used.
Now, in the expanded edition of Hell to Pay, his research again involves areas that have received little or no attention."
Robert James Maddox at History News Network reviews D. M. Giangreco's Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947.
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