Hiroshima, Nagasaki : the real story of the atomic bombings and their aftermath / Paul Ham.
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TextPublisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, [2014]Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: ix, 629 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1250047110 (hardcover)
- 9781250047113 (hardcover)
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
- Atomic bomb -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 the atomic bombs, mostly women, children, and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness.
Yet American leaders claimed the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice"--and still today most people believe they ended the Pacific War and saved millions of American and Japanese lives. In this gripping narrative, Ham demonstrates convincingly that misunderstandings and nationalist fury on both sides led to the use of the bombs. Ham also gives powerful witness to its destruction through the eyes of eighty survivors, from twelve-year-olds forced to work in war factories to wives and children who faced the holocaust alone.
Hiroshima Nagasaki presents the grisly unadorned truth about the bombings, blurred for so long by postwar propaganda, and transforms our understanding of one of the defining events of the twentieth century.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-601) and index.
Winter 1945 -- Two cities -- Feuersturm -- President -- Atom -- The Manhattan Project -- Spring 1945 -- The Target Committee -- Japan defeated -- Unconditional surrender -- Trinity -- Potsdam -- Mokusatsu -- Summer 1945 -- Tinian Island -- Augusta -- Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 -- Invasion -- Nagasaki, 9 August 1945 -- Surrender -- Reckoning -- Hibakusha -- Why -- Dead heat.
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.