Racing the Enemy

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Racing the Enemy is written by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674744047 (ISBN 10) and 9780674744042 (ISBN 13).

Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story—the US, the USSR, and Japan. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, he reveals the real reasons Japan surrendered.