Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
by Preston, Diana
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0802714455
- ISBN 13
- 9780802714459
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Walker & Company, 2005. xiv, 400 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown, soft corner crease to first few leaves, Fine DJ. "'Before the Fallout' is the epic, riveting story of the half century between the discovery of radium and the detonation of 'Little Boy' over Hiroshima, during which an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world led to the knowledge of how to destroy it." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
Synopsis
Diana Preston is a historian, writer and broadcaster. Her books include: The Road to Culloden Moore: A First Rate Tragedy ; Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole ; The Boxer Rebellion ; and W ilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania .
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 107352
- Title
- Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
- Author
- Preston, Diana
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0802714455
- ISBN 13
- 9780802714459
- Publisher
- Walker & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo
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