Countdown 1945 : The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
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 continentsand 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 wartimefrom
’;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 dayas 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 history.
Kustantaja: UKBooks
Sidosasu:
ean: 9781982143350
Ilmestymisvuosi: 2023
Hyllypaikka (Sivullinen kirjakauppa): UK1 2402 history
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