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    Hello,

    I'm looking for the best alternate history WW2 novel in regards to the U.S. invading Japan. Wikipedia lists the following. If anyone has read any of these or can recommend another title to reverto[at]yahoo[dotcom], I'd appreciate it.


    1969. The Bomb That Failed (British, The Last Year of the Old World) by Ronald W. Clark, The failure of the Trinity test in June 1945 leads to an American invasion of Japan.

    1971. Lighter than a Feather by David Westheimer, The Americans invade Japan in November 1945 as part of Operation Downfall.

    1983. The Burning Mountain: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan by Alfred Coppel, during World War II, a lightning strike at the Trinity test postpones deployment of the atomic bomb, forcing the U.S. to invade Japan.

    2007. 1945 by Robert Conroy, depicts what could have happened if the United States had to invade Japan in World War II despite using the atomic bomb.

    2007. Macarthur's War by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson. The US defeat in Midway forces Douglas MacArthur to take over the Allied command in the Pacific and later launch the invasion of Japan. Isoroku Yamamoto also serves as Japan's war minister.

    2009. Storming Paradise, by Chuck Dixon, the first detonation of the atomic bomb at Trinity was exploded prematurely, killing prominent nuclear physicists such as Robert Oppenheimer. This forces the loss of reproducing the atomic bomb and having President Truman to initiate the bloody Allied invasion of Japan in Operation Downfall.
     

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