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James M. Scott

Biography

James M. Scott

A Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestseller, James M. Scott is the author of EMPIRE OF ASHES, BLACK SNOW, RAMPAGE, TARGET TOKYO, THE WAR BELOW and THE ATTACK ON LIBERTY, and co-author, with Jack Carr, of TARGETED: BEIRUT. In addition, Scott, a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, is a sought-after public speaker, who leads battlefield tours and lectures at institutions around the world. He lives with his wife and two children in Charleston, South Carolina, where he is the Scholar in Residence at The Citadel. 

James M. Scott

Books by James M. Scott

Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War
by James M. Scott - History, Nonfiction

At 9:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, an American bomber pierced the skies over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The single bomb it dropped unleashed an atomic hurricane that toppled homes, vaporized birds in flight, and carbonized humans. Three days later, a second bomb flattened the port city of Nagasaki. In the span of a mere 75 hours, the United States --- a nation once morally opposed to the bombing of civilians --- killed 120,000 men, women and children, dooming tens of thousands more to agonizing death in the weeks and months ahead. EMPIRE OF ASHES explores the final brutal months of the war in the Pacific, featuring the voices of never-before-heard victims of the atomic bombs.