Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima Paperback - 2006
by Walker, Stephen
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- Good
- Paperback
A British filmmaker and documentary director tells the story of the bombing of Hiroshima in a new and dramatic way: a minute-by-minute account told from multiple perspectives, including American soldiers, Los Alamos scientists, and Japanese survivors. 16-page b&w photo insert.
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- Title Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
- Author Walker, Stephen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, Scarborough, ON, Canada
- Date 5/9/2006 12:00:01 AM
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000827362
- ISBN 9780060742850 / 0060742852
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.4 x 0.94 in (20.27 x 13.72 x 2.39 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Hiroshima-shi (Japan) - History -, Atomic bomb - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.542
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A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world forever
On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb--dubbed Little Boy by its creators--was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On that day, a firestorm of previously unimagined power was unleashed on a vibrant metropolis of 300,000 people, leaving one third of its population dead, its buildings and landmarks incinerated. It was the terrifying dawn of the Atomic Age, spawning decades of paranoia, mistrust, and a widespread and very real fear of the potential annihilation of the human race.
Author Stephen Walker brilliantly re-creates the three terrible weeks leading up to the wartime detonation of the atomic bomb--from the first successful test in the New Mexico desert to the cataclysm and its aftermath--presenting the story through the eyes of pilots, scientists, civilian victims, and world leaders who stood at the center of earth-shattering drama. It is a startling, moving, frightening, and remarkable portrait of an extraordinary event--a shockwave whose repercussions can be felt to this very day.
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2007, Page 35