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Hiroshima Nagasaki
Paperback Edition: 1
In a new paperback edition with a stunning new cover, the award-winning author of VIETNAM and KOKODA relates the gripping human story behind a horrific turning point in humankind's history. Did the atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki end the war
in the Pacific and save millions of American and Japanese lives? Most people believe so. They certainly killed a civiliant population of more than 100,000, while many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. American leaders claimed the bombings were 'our least abhorrent choice', but historian Paul Ham challenges this view. He argues that the bombings, when Japan was on its knees, were the culmination of a war on enemy civilians by Allied forces already well underway. Throw in a seemingly unstoppable momentum to try out this new demonic weapon developed in secrecy, and a suspicious Soviet Union racing for the spoils of war from a front it had not been part of, and the fate of two cities, full of ordinary people, who would, on a clear-blue summer's day, feel the sun fall on their heads, seems sealed.
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Pages : 576
Publisher : Harper Collins
Publication date : 2018-02-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, History, Politics, Second World War, Nuclear Weapons