Based on documents that have just recently been declassified by the United States and Japan, this is the true story of a plan for peace which succeeded in opening communications with Tokyo in the Spring of 1945 - weeks before tha atom bombs were dropped. The author, then an OSS agent, had been instructed by the infamous General William J. Donovan to "open up communications looking to the surrender of Japan". With the help of a Vatican diplomat, a Japanese priest, and the Japanese ambassador to the Holy See, talks began. Along the way, however, these plans were sidetracked and peace was not achieved until after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Packed with the drama and suspense of a spy novel, "Peace without Hiroshima" opens up an unknown chapter of World War II diplomatic and intelligence history.