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Title: Torch to the Enemy: The Fire Raid on Tokyo (The Bantam War Book Series) by Martin Caidin ISBN: 0-553-29926-3 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Disturbing, but True
Comment: A Torch to the Enemy vividly describes the Fire raid on Tokyo. The reader is taught how the Air Force decided to quit precision bombing and use carpet boming. Then the book goes on the take th reader in the middle of the raid with the B-29 crews, and then the horror of the fire in Tokyo. The spread of the fire, the gruesome pictures, and the statistics included on all the carpet bombings give all readers a picture of the real horrific aspects of war. Many people only remember the atmoic bombings, but this book sheds light on the successful and terrible fire bombings that occurred before the atomic bomb was dropped.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Gruesome Yet Thrilling Account
Comment: The morality of carpet bombing has often been questioned, but Martin Caidin makes it clear that virtually every Japanese home in Tokyo had some form of war-related industry in the form of lathes, workshops, etc. The attack is graphically described. The wood-and-paper homes caught fire and burned out of control in no time. The crowding of these tinderboxes enabled the fire to spread catastrophically, thus rendering any manner of fire-fighting out of the question.