A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the World War II bombing of Hiroshima, from early testing to the cataclysmic event and its aftermath.

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 humanity.

Author Stephen Walker brilliantly recreates the three terrible weeks leading up to the wartime detonation of the atomic bomb -- from the first successful test in the New Mexico desert to the cataclysm and its aftermath -- presenting the story through the eyes of the pilots, scientists, civilian victims, and world leaders who stood at the center of earth-shattering drama. It is a startling, moving, frightening, and remarkable portrait of an extraordinary event -- a shockwave whose repercussions can be felt to this very day.

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• HistoryAmericasUnited States20th Century
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