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Shockwave : Countdown to Hiroshima - Stephen Walker

Shockwave

Countdown to Hiroshima

By: Stephen Walker

eBook | 23 July 2020

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

It was a moment that stilled and forever changed the world.

On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb - dubbed 'Little Boy' by its creators - was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On that day, a firestorm of previously unimagined power was unleashed on a vibrant metropolis of 300,000 people, leaving one third of its population dead, its buildings and landmarks incinerated.

It was the terrifying dawn of the Atomic Age, spawning decades of paranoia, mistrust, and a widespread and very real fear of the potential annihilation of the human race.

n a riveting minute-by-minute retelling, Stephen Walker traces the human stories, horrific realities and long-term consequences of what happened when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped, as remembered by American soldiers, Los Alamos scientists and Japanese survivors.

Industry Reviews

'Shockwave is a stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read.' Irish Times

'This is an utterly gripping work of micro-history ... [Walker] proves himself a master of dramatic tension.'

Sunday Express

'The excitement of the time is wonderfully captured in Walker's Shockwave. Brilliant.'

Financial Times

'Devastating.'

Daily Mail

'Timely and harrowing ...succeeds in creating a dramatized documentary of the moment that changed history.'

Scotland on Sunday

'A roller-coaster ride through the memories of American servicemen, Japanese soldiers and civilians...invites comparison with John Hersey's still-classic Hiroshima.'

Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

'Superb ...Walker writes with a sense of urgency and high drama.'

Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

'Uniquely readable, immediate and human ...an exceptionally taut and revealing chronicle.'

Booklist (Starred Review)

'Dramatic ...an important page-turner.'

Entertainment Weekly

'Remarkable. I have been waiting for this book for sixty years.'

Gitta Sereny, author of Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth

'Electrifying ...The tension and concentration of Walker's thriller-like prose elicits a visceral response.' Chicago Tribune

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