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Author : Michael J. Hogan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521566827
This collection of essays surveys the Hiroshima story.
Author : John Hersey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593082362
Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.
Author : Robert James Maddox
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826265876
When President Harry Truman authorized the use of atomic weapons against Japan, he did so to end a bloody war that would have been bloodier still had the planned invasion of Japan proved necessary. Revisionists claim that Truman's real interest was a power play with the Soviet Union and that the Japanese would have surrendered even earlier had the retention of their imperial system been assured. Truman wanted the war to continue, they insist, in order to show off America's powerful new weapon. This anthology exposes revisionist fallacies about Truman's motives, the cost of an invasion, and the question of Japan's surrender. Essays by prominent military and diplomatic historians reveal the hollowness of revisionist claims, exposing the degree to which these agenda-driven scholars have manipulated the historical record to support their contentions. They show that, although some Japanese businessmen and minor officials indicated a willingness to negotiate peace, no one in a governmental decision-making capacity even suggested surrender. And although casualty estimates for an invasion vary considerably, the more authoritative approximations point to the very bloodbath that Truman sought to avoid. Volume editor Robert Maddox first examines the writings of revisionist Gar Alperovitz to expose the unscholarly methods Alperovitz employed to support his claims, then distinguished Japanese historian Sadao Asada reveals how difficult it was for his country's peace faction to prevail even after the bombs had been dropped. Other contributors point to continuing Japanese military buildups, analyze the revisionists' low casualty estimates for an invasion, reveal manipulations of the Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, and show how even the exhibit commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum hewed to the revisionist line. And a close reading of Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's acclaimed Racing the Enemy exposes many grave discrepancies between that recent revisionist text and its sources. The use of atomic bombs against Japan remains one of the most controversial issues in American history. Gathered in a single volume for the first time, these insightful readings take a major step toward settling that controversy by showing how insubstantial Hiroshima revisionism really is--and that sometimes history cannot proceed without decisive action, however regrettable.
Author : Donald M. Goldstein,Katherine V. Dillon,J. Michael Wenger
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 157488221X
Contains more than 400 photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before, during, and after those fateful days
Author : Ran Zwigenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107071278
An original and compelling new analysis of Hiroshima's place within the global development of Holocaust and World War II memory.
Author : Michael D. Gordin,G. John Ikenberry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691193458
A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legacies On August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of nuclear annihilation, but it has also shaped how we think about war and peace, the past and the present, and science and ethics. The Age of Hiroshima traces these complex legacies, exploring how the meanings of Hiroshima have reverberated across the decades and around the world. Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry bring together leading scholars from disciplines ranging from international relations and political theory to cultural history and science and technology studies, who together provide new perspectives on Hiroshima as both a historical event and a cultural phenomenon. As an event, Hiroshima emerges in the flow of decisions and hard choices surrounding the bombing and its aftermath. As a phenomenon, it marked a revolution in science, politics, and the human imagination—the end of one age and the dawn of another. The Age of Hiroshima reveals how the bombing of Hiroshima gave rise to new conceptions of our world and its precarious interconnectedness, and how we continue to live in its dangerous shadow today.
Author : Stewart Ross
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : 9781625133540
Written in British English, Hiroshima tells the story of how the Japanese port city of Hiroshima came to be the target of the world's first nuclear attack.
Author : R. G. Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
ISBN : OCLC:1285846972
This insightful series presents some of the most important events in modern history, and encourages us to think critically about the effects these watershed moments have had on the world.
Author : Kai Bird,Lawrence Lifschultz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045674531
"Writings on the denial of history and the Smithsonian controversy"--Cover.
Author : Gar Alperovitz
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 863 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679762850
With a new preface by the author Controversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb against Japan. Alperovitz criticizes one of the most hotly debated precursory events to the Cold War, an event that was largely responsible for the evolution of post-World War II American politics and culture.
Author : Gar Alperovitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 067106150X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : OCLC:226657179
Author : Robert James Maddox
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826215628
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 Enola Gay released an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 9 another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Fifty years have passed since these catastrophic events, and the bombings still remain highly controversial. The official justification for using these weapons was that they prevented enormous losses on both sides by avoiding an Allied invasion of Japan. Many diplomatic historians, however, have asserted that the bombings were unnecessary. One extreme argument is that Truman knew the Japanese were ready to surrender but wanted to use the bombs to intimidate the Soviet Union. Robert Maddox examines all these claims in Weapons for Victory as he strives to dispel the many myths that have been accepted as fact. In addition to Maddox's valuable recasting of the circumstances leading to the bombings, he also confronts the proposed Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit with careful historical analysis.
Author : Donald M. Goldstein,Katherine V. Dillon,J. Michael Wenger
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 157488221X
Contains more than 400 photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before, during, and after those fateful days
Author : Reg Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : 0750284102
Read about how in the early morning hours of 6 August 1945, a B-29 bomber headed for the Japanese city of Hiroshima to drop an atomic bomb. The aftermath of the bombing still affects the city's inhabitants today. This book details the events of Hiroshima and explains why this haunting event occurred. Photographs from the period provide an informative view of this tragedy. Moments in History is an insightful series that presents some of the most important events in modern history. From World War I to the Cold War, readers are encouraged to think critically about the effects these watershed moments have had on the world. Written in a straightforward, engaging style, the books include first-hand speeches, letters, diary entries and other primary source materials that give dramatic clues to the reasons these unforgettable events unfolded as they did. Photographs from the time period show the world as it was at that moment, and the views of professional historians are included in each chapter. Encourages readers at KS3 and KS4 to think critically about the effect Hiroshima has had on the world.
