Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History "Like Lauren Hillebrand's
Unbroken
…
Target Tokyo
brings to life an indelible era." —Ben Cosgrove,
The Daily Beast
On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS
Hornet
on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written,
has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations.