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Price: $7.50
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Sale: $2.76
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: John Hersey
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5425
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Publication Date: 1989-03-04
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times).
Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered about them is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $9.00
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Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5425
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Publication Date: 1996-08-15
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: From the “taming of the West” to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest to teachers, historians, and museum curators. Everywhere now, history is increasingly being held hostage, but to what end and why? In History Wars, eight prominent historians consider the angry swirl of emotions that now surrounds public memory. Included are trenchant essays by Paul Boyer, John W. Dower, Tom Engelhardt, Richard H. Kohn, Edward Linenthal, Micahel S. Sherry, Marilyn B. Young, and Mike Wallace.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $14.50
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: J. Samuel Walker
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5425
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Publication Date: 2005-02-28
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. He delineates what was known and not known by American leaders at the time and evaluates the role of U.S.-Soviet relations and American domestic politics. In this new edition, Walker takes into account recent scholarship on the topic, including new information on the Japanese decision to surrender. He has revised the book to place more emphasis on the effect of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in convincing the emperor and his advisers to quit the war. Rising above an often polemical debate, Walker presents an accessible synthesis of previous work and an important, original contribution to our understanding of the events that ushered in the atomic age.
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Price: $4.99
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Sale: $1.17
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Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Laurence Yep
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Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
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Publication Date: 1996-05-01
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Reading Level: 64
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Price: $25.99
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5425
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Publication Date: 1996-03-29
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Reading Level: 290
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Description: A timely collection of essays unites up-to-date scholarship by diplomatic historians with the recent emerging interest in memory. Prominent historians survey the Hiroshima story, from the American decision to drop the bomb to the recent controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $10.28
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Manufacturer: Kodansha International
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Toyofumi Ogura
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Publisher: Kodansha International
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940
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Publication Date: 2001-11-09
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Reading Level: 198
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Description: A love story in the form of letters to the author's young wife, who died soon after the bombing of Hiroshima.
More than fifty years after the Second World War, the scars left by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima refuse to heal. This compelling account of one man's experience gives a human face to the events of August 6, 1945.
For a week after the bombing, the author, who was an assistant professor at Hiroshima University, wandered the decimated streets of the city, searching for his wife and his youngest son. He finally located them, but his wife died just days later. Grief-stricken, the author wrote her a series of letters over the next year outlining the things he had seen and heard during her last days on earth. In 1948, the letters became the first eyewitness account of an atomic bombing ever published.
This powerful record shows how one family's future was altered in an instant. Comprised of correspondence, diary entries and drawings, Letters from the End of the World presents the events surrounding the close of World War II in terms so personal they will not soon be forgotten.
"By the time we reach the account of Fumiyo's horrifying death on Aug. 20, which we see from both Ogura's perspective and that of his 11-year-old daugther, Kazuko, who kept a diary, the sadness and anger that have been building up through the whole book are almost unbearable. . . . The uncompromising anger toward Japan's military leaders that is expressed throughout is striking and unusual."
Elizabeth Ward, The Japan Times
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.95
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Manufacturer: University of N. Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michihiko Hachiya
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Publisher: University of N. Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5425
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Publication Date: 1995-01-01
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Reading Level: 268
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $4.99
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Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ronald Takaki
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Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5425
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Publication Date: 1996-09-01
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: The bombing of Hiroshima was one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century, yet this controversial question remains unresolved. At the time, General Dwight Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, and chief of staff Admiral William Leahy all agreed that an atomic attack on Japanese cities was unnecessary. All of them believed that Japan had already been beaten and that the war would soon end. Was the bomb dropped to end the war more quickly? Or did it herald the start of the Cold War? In his probing new study, prizewinning historian Ronald Takaki explores these factors and more. He considers the cultural context of race - the ways in which stereotypes of the Japanese influenced public opinion and policymakers - and also probes the human dimension. Relying on top secret military reports, diaries, and personal letters, Takaki relates international policies to the individuals involved: Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer, Secretary of State James Byrnes, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, and others... but above all, Harry Truman.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $13.57
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Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Clayton Chun
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Publisher: Osprey Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940
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Publication Date: 2008-10-21
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: In this 200th Campaign series title Clayton Chun examines the final stages of World War II as the Allies debated how to bring about the surrender of Japan. Chun not only describes the actual events but also analyzes the possible operations to capture the Japanese mainland which were never implemented. He details Operation Downfall (the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands) and its two-phased approach. Firstly Operation Olympic would see the invasion of Kyushu, followed by Operation Coronet which would see the invasion of the area around Tokyo.
Chun goes on to examine exactly why these plans were never implemented, including Allied fears that both military and civilian casualties would be terrible and would result in a long, drawn out war of attrition. He then goes on to examine the horrific alternative to military invasion - the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons - which made the Allied threat of "prompt and utter destruction" a reality. With a series of illustrations, including detailed diagrams of the atomic bombs, a depiction of the different stages of the explosions and maps of the original invasion plans, this book provides a unique perspective of a key event in world history.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $20.38
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Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Martin Sherwin
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.532273
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Publication Date: 2003-08-11
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Reading Level: 424
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Description: Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the American atomic bomb, the decision to use it against Japan, and the origins of U.S. atomic diplomacy toward the Soviet Union.
In his Preface to this new edition, the author describes and evaluates the lengthening trail of new evidence that has come to light concerning these often emotionally debated subjects. The author also invokes his experience as a historical advisor to the controversial, aborted 1995 Enola Gay exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. This leads him to analyze the impact on American democracy of one of the most insidious of the legacies of Hiroshima: the political control of historical interpretation.
Reviews of Previous Editions
“The quality of Sherwin’s research and the strength of his argument are far superior to previous accounts.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Probably the definitive account for a long time to come. . . . Sherwin has tackled some of the critical questions of the Cold War’s origins—and has settled them, in my opinion.”
—Walter LaFeber,
Cornell University
“One of those rare achievements of conscientious scholarship, a book at once graceful and luminous, yet loyal to its documentation and restrained in its speculations.”
—Boston Globe
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