Shockwave: Countdown To Hiroshima - Hardcover

Walker, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060742844 ISBN 13: 9780060742843

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2005

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August 6th, 1945, 9.15 a. M. Six miles above Hiroshima, the bombardier of the Enola Gay releases an atomic bomb into the freezing skies. Seconds later, the city is obliterated in a single, monumental blast of fire. The destruction is immediate and catastrophic, as if a small sun had suddenly exploded. Tens of thousands of people are instantly annihilated. In that moment, the world will never be the same again. Combining a rich array of interviews with gripping storytelling, Stephen Walker's Shockwave presents an extraordinary and unforgettably moving portrait of one of the defining events of the twentieth century; 352 pages; Description: xiv, 352 p. , [16] p. Of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-351) . Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 --Campaigns --Japan. Atomic bomb --History. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) --History --Bombardment, 1945

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A minute-by-minute retelling of the Hiroshima bombing as remembered by American soldiers, Los Alamos scientists, and Japanese survivors is a sixtieth-anniversary account that offers insight into the bombing's role in the war and the unfolding of the twentieth century. 50,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060742844
• ISBN 13: 9780060742843
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 349