Buy this book on-line WALKER,STEPHEN: : SHOCKWAVE: THE COUNTDOWN TO HIROSHIMALONDON.JOHN MURRAY,2005. ISBN 0719566258.
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At 9.15 a.m. on 6 August 1945 a bomb plummets towards a city.Few of the bustling commuters below look up.There are no sirens,no warnings.
When it explodes the temperature soars to millions of degrees.Tens of thousands of people are annihilated.
The destruction is catastrophic,as if a small sun had suddenly blown itself to bits.In that instant,the name Hiroshima is stamped on the consciousness of a world which will never be the same again.
Stephen Walker's countdown to Hiroshima and its aftermath is a tense,real-life narrative of events as they unfolded in the last terrible weeks of the war.
Unprecedented interviews with American and Japanese witnesses interweave in a tapestry of voices.
They include the co-pilot who writes a minute-by-minute diary on board the Enola Gay.The atomic scientist who arms the bomb in mid-air,equipped with a screwdriver. The Japanese student desperately searching for his lover in the ruins of the city.The doctor forced to treat thousands of burnt bodies with only soy-bean oil and leaves.
Combining a rich array of sources with brilliant storytelling,Stephen Walker grippingly charts the defining event of the twentieth century,on its sixtieth (then 2005) anniversary. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of WALKER,STEPHEN: : SHOCKWAVE: THE COUNTDOWN TO HIROSHIMA. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, libri rari, fine bindings, livres illustrées and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |