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Chargement... Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the Worldpar Chris Wallace
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Great book and easy to read. I just found out that Chris Wallace is coming out with another book and it's titled something like Countdown Bin Ladin. So kind of like a Countdown series. ( ) This book describes the events leading up to the United States dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Despite the fact that everyone knows how the story will end, Wallace is able to build suspense leading up to the inevitable end. Wallace does a nice job setting up the stories, events, and historical perspective surrounding the dropping of the bombs and end of World War II. Wallace strives hard for objectivity, including differing stories and perspectives from numerous people involved, including from Harry Truman, scientists, cabinet officials, military leaders, enlisted soldiers, the crew of the Enola Gay, civilians, reporters, and survivors of the blasts. While Wallace reaches his own conclusions regarding the question of whether the US should have used atomic weapons, he’s not afraid to present both positive and negative views on that issue. Indeed, one of the reasons for the building tension in this book is because it discusses the conflicting feelings and tensions that existed among those responsible for designing, building, and ultimately using the atomic bombs. This is well worth the read. Understanding this history helps us understand what happened and helps us deal with modern issues about technology and warfare, and avoid the mistakes made by others in the past. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:The #1 national bestselling "riveting" (The New York Times), "propulsive" (Time) behind-the-scenes account "that reads like a tense thriller" (The Washington Post) of the 116 days leading up to the American attack on Hiroshima by veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace. April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world's first atomic bomb, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continentsâ??and confront one of the most consequential decisions in history. Countdown 1945 tells the gripping true story of the turbulent days, weeks, and months to follow, leading up to August 6, 1945, when Truman gives the order to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. In Countdown 1945, Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, takes readers inside the minds of the iconic and elusive figures who join the quest for the bomb, each for different reasons: the legendary Albert Einstein, who eventually calls his vocal support for the atomic bomb "the one great mistake in my life"; lead researcher J. Robert "Oppie" Oppenheimer and the Soviet spies who secretly infiltrate his team; the fiercely competitive pilots of the plane selected to drop the bomb; and many more. Perhaps most of all, Countdown 1945 is the story of an untested new president confronting a decision that he knows will change the world forever. But more than a book about the atomic bomb, Countdown 1945 is also an unforgettable account of the lives of ordinary American and Japanese civilians in wartimeâ??from "Calutron Girls" like Ruth Sisson in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to ten-year-old Hiroshima resident Hideko Tamura, who survives the blast at ground zero but loses her mother and later immigrates to the United States, where she lives to this dayâ??as well as American soldiers fighting in the Pacific, waiting in fear for the order to launch a possible invasion of Japan. Told with vigor, intelligence, and humanity, Countdown 1945 is the definitive account of one of the most significant moments in Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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