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Author Ham, Paul, author.

Title Hiroshima Nagasaki : the real story of the atomic bombings and their aftermath / Paul Ham.

Publication Info. New York : Picador, a Thomas Dunne Book, St. Martin's Press, 2015.

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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  940.5425 HAM c.2  Check Shelf
Edition First Picador edition.
Description ix, 629 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-601) and index.
Summary Examines the history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, arguing that it had little impact on the eventual outcome of war in the Pacific.
Contents Winter 1945 -- Two cities -- Feuersturm -- President -- Atom -- The Manhattan Project -- Spring 1945 -- The Target Committee -- Japan defeated -- Unconditional surrender -- Trinity -- Potsdam -- Mokusatsu -- Summer 1945 -- Tinian Island -- Augusta -- Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 -- Invasion -- Nagasaki, 9 August 1945 -- Surrender -- Reckoning -- Hibakusha -- Why -- Dead heat.
Subject Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi.
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi.
Atomic bomb -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Atomic bomb -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00820573
Atomic bomb victims. (OCoLC)fst00820593
Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
Japan -- Hiroshima-shi. (OCoLC)fst01209723
Japan -- Nagasaki-shi. (OCoLC)fst01211968
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Bombardment of Hiroshima-shi (Hiroshima-shi, Japan : 1945) (OCoLC)fst01352071
Bombardment of Nagasaki-shi (Nagasaki-shi, Japan : 1945) (OCoLC)fst01352095
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Editions: Reproduction of (manifestation): Ham, Paul. Hiroshima Nagasaki. Sydney : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2011 9780732288457
ISBN 9781250070050 (paperback)
1250070058 (paperback)
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