Japan: the Final Agony (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Campaign book No. 9)

Ravaged by firebombs and torn by her efforts to provide the manpower, munitions, and food to mount a sufficient force to repulse the American invasion, war-weary Japan was determined still to fight — with bamboo spears in the hands of old men if necessary — but finally her leaders knew the truth: Japan had to capitulate or be annihilated.