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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan
J. Samuel Walker
The University of North Carolina Press, 2005
Historiography at its Finest
One of the most complex, divisive, and nuanced debates in the history of the twentieth century is the decision by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in August 1945 to drop two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, thereby ending World War II. A traditional ...
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History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
Holt Paperbacks, 1996
Excellent analysis of the Atomic bomb and modern society
A revealing analysis of the political and historical conflicts revolving around the 1995 Smithsonian Air and Space exhibit on the Enola Gay and Post-War America. Through insightful disection of both sides of the Enola Gay exhibit and of post-war America, Linenthal and ...
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Hiroshima (Apple Paperbacks)
Laurence Yep
Scholastic Paperbacks, 1996
Chemistry Teacher
I used this very simple book to inject a little burst of "something" different into my Chemistry class. I use it when I cover Nuclear Chemistry. It describes very simply the vocabulary words for an atomic bomb and the plus is that the students get to learn about the ...
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Hiroshima: The World's Bomb (Making of the Modern World)
Andrew J. Rotter
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
Good book on a continually interesting topic
This book provides an overview of the decision to drop the atomic bomb, the points of view and scientific development that led to the decision, and the post-WWII development of atomic weapons, presented country by country. Given this broad scope, the detail that can be ...
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Hiroshima
John Hersey
Vintage, 1989
A very good book
This is a book I would recommend for anyone to read. By reading the book you get a personal perspective on the ones affected by the bombing. This edition has an additional chapter, written years later, where the author gives an update on the people in the book. Very ...
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Barefoot Gen, Vol. 2: The Day After
Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman
Last Gasp, 2004
Powerful
I stumbled across this graphic novel in a used bookstore, not having any idea the impression it would make on me. This is an incredibly powerful story, very effectively told through the medium of comic art. It is an affirmation of the power of visual media, and an ...
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Barefoot Gen, Vol. 3: Life After the Bomb
Keiji Nakazawa
Last Gasp, 2005
Life After the Bomb
This is an incredibly moving graphic novel. In order to earn money to feed his mother and infant sister Gen agrees to take care of Mr. Seiji, an artist burned head to toe by the bomb. Mr. Seiji is kept in a room and left to die by his brother and his brother's ...
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Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman
Last Gasp, 2004
WE MUST READ THIS BOOK AS WE WONDER WHY OUR WAR DOES NOT ESTABLISH PEACE
In our present time this portal to the topic of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and our nature as the only nation to build and to use nuclear weapons, and against strictly civilian population centers may inform our moral consideration of the present failure of our total war ...
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Japan 1945: From Operation Downfall to Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Campaign)
Clayton Chun
Osprey Publishing, 2008
In this 200th Campaign series title Clayton Chun examines the final stages of World War II as the Allies debated how to bring about the surrender of Japan. Chun not only describes the actual events but also analyzes the possible operations to capture the Japanese mainland which were never implemented. He details Operation Downfall (the planned ...
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
Marguerite Duras
Grove Press, 1994
A French Masterpiece about Memory and Forgetting.
French film director Alain Resnais is best known for Night and Fog (1955), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), and Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad) (1961). Based on a script by novelist Marguerite Duras (also known for The Lover), Hiroshima Mon Amour ...
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Great World War II Projects You Can Build Yourself (Build It Yourself series)
Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
Nomad Press, 2006
Fantastic Book for leaning WWII History - while having fun!
What a great book to teach children about WWII while having fun at the same time! I highly recommend this book to parents (and teachers!)who want to involve their children in entertaining, stimulating activities that engage the mind as well as the hands. Extremely well ...
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World War 2 Tales
Bentley Boyd
Chester Comix, 2005
Great book for an elementary school boy
This book series is one of my son's favorites. He will reread all the books because the pictures and the stories have such great details that he constantly finds something interesting. He finds the topics fascinating and I like the books because many of the US ...
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From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War
Wilson D. Miscamble
Cambridge University Press, 2006
New light on who/what started the Cold War
The origin of the Cold War remains a hot topic, with several new books appearing each year revealing new information from previously sealed archives and basic research into private papers of major players in the Cold War. Having read a number of these studies, I would ...
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Hiroshima in History and Memory
Cambridge University Press, 1996
Public Memory V Private Memory
An essential feature of any historical work is the selection ofsources one wishes to present as an argument. The role of memory and access to history, that is public access to 'other' histories, is an area of much contention in the contemporary world. What I most ...
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Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan
James J. Orr
University of Hawaii Press, 2001
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