The Last MissionBy: Jim Smith, Malcolm McConnell A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in the war. How close did the Japanese come to not surrendering to Allied forces on August 15, 1945? The Last Mission explores this question through two previously neglected strands of lateWorld War II history, whose very interconnections could have caused a harrowing shift in the