Hiroshima Nagasaki / Paul Ham.
Publication details: Sydney : HarperCollins, 2011.Description: ix, 629 p., [32] p. of plates. : ill. (some col.), col. maps., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780732288457 (hbk.)
- 9780732288464 (pbk.)
- 940.54252195 23
- D767.25.H6 H35 2011
- Also available in electronic version via the internet.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 940.542 HAM | Available | 053233 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-601) and index.
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.
"Nobody is more disturbed," said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, "over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language [the Japanese] seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them. When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true."
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