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Author Wallace, Chris, author.

Title Countdown 1945 : the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world / Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss.

Publication Info. New York : Avid Reader Press, 2020.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  940.5425 WALLACE    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  940.54 WALLACE    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  940.54 WAL    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.5425 WALLACE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  940.5425 WALLACE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  940.5425 WALLACE    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  940.54 WALLACE, CHRIS    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  940.54 WAL    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  940.54 WALLACE    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  940.5425 WAL    Check Shelf

Edition First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Description 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Illustrations on endpapers.
Summary A "behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the Americans attack on Hiroshima"--Dust jacket flap.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and index.
Summary April 12, 1945: America is stunned by the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continents. Wallace tells the gripping true story of the turbulent days, weeks, and months leading up to August 6, 1945, when Truman gives the order to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. He takes readers inside the minds of the iconic and elusive figures who join the quest for the bomb, each for different reasons. Truman's journey during these 116 days is a story of high drama: from the conflicting advice he receives from generals, to wrestling with the devastating carnage that will result if he gives the order to use America's first weapon of mass destruction. -- adapted from jacket
Subject Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
World War, 1939-1945.
Atomic bomb. (OCoLC)fst00820568
Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
Japan -- Hiroshima-shi. (OCoLC)fst01209723
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan.
Bombardment of Hiroshima-shi (Hiroshima-shi, Japan : 1945) (OCoLC)fst01352071
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Weiss, Mitch, author.
Added Title Countdown nineteen forty-five : the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
1945 : the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
Extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
Story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
ISBN 9781982143343 (hardcover)
1982143347 (hardcover)
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