Hiroshima In History PDF Download

Author : Michael J Hogan
Release Date : 29 March 1996
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Genre : History
Pages : 238
ISBN 13 : 0521566827

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Book Description: This collection of essays surveys the Hiroshima story.

Hiroshima in History and Memory

Author : Michael J Hogan,Michael J. Hogan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Genre : History
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This collection of essays surveys the Hiroshima story....

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Author : John Hersey
Publisher : Vintage
Genre : History
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"A new edition with a final chapter written forty years after the explosion."...

Hiroshima in History

Author : Robert James Maddox
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Genre : History
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When President Harry Truman authorized the use of atomic weapons against Japan, he did so to end a bloody war that would have been bloodier still had the planned invasion of Japan proved necessary. Revisionists claim that Truman's real interest was a power play with the Soviet Union and that ...

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Author : R. G. Grant
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Details the events of Hiroshima when, in the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber headed for the city to drop an atomic bomb on the city. Photographs from the period supplement the text....

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Author : Kai Bird,Lawrence Lifschultz
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : History
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Essays and memoirs discuss the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945...

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Author : Paul Ham
Publisher : Macmillan
Genre : History
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In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 people were killed instantly by ...

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Author : Gordon Thomas,Max Morgan-Witts
Publisher : Open Road Media
Genre : History
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From theNew York Times–bestselling coauthors: A “fascinating . . . unrivaled” history of the B-29 and its fateful mission to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (The New York Times Book Review). Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. ...

The Age of Hiroshima

Author : Michael D. Gordin,G. John Ikenberry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Genre : History
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A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legacies On August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of nuclear annihilation, but it has also shaped ...

Rain of Ruin

Author : Donald M. Goldstein,Katherine V. Dillon,J. Michael Wenger
Publisher : Potomac Books Incorporated
Genre : History
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Contains more than 400 photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before, during, and after those fateful days...

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Author : Stewart Ross
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Genre : Atomic bomb
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Written in British English, Hiroshima tells the story of how the Japanese port city of Hiroshima came to be the target of the world's first nuclear attack....

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Author : Michael Kort
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Genre : History
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The Cold War was the longest conflict in American history, and the defining event of the second half of the twentieth century. Since its recent and abrupt cessation, we have only begun to measure the effects of the Cold War on American, Soviet, post-Soviet, and international military strategy, economics, domestic ...

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Author : Ran Zwigenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Genre : History
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An original and compelling new analysis of Hiroshima's place within the global development of Holocaust and World War II memory....

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Author : Jess Brallier,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Hiroshima is where the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now readers will learn the reasons why and what it's meant for the world ever since. By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the fighting continued between American forces and the Japanese, who were losing but determined to ...

Racing the Enemy

Author : Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Genre : History
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"In the first international history of the end of World War II in the Pacific - the only book to fully integrate the roles of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan - Tsuyoshi Hasegawa traces an intricate diplomatic and military end game as he shatters standard accounts of ...

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Author : Lesley M.M. Blume
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Genre : History
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century—the true effects of the atom bomb—potentially saving millions of lives. Just days after the United States ...