14 must-read nonfiction books like Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath by Paul Ham

Cover of Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath by Paul Ham

Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

By: Paul Ham

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first narrative history of the nuclear attack told from both the Japanese and American viewpoin…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath by Paul Ham , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back by Charles Pellegrino

1. The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back

By: Charles Pellegrino

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles… read more

Similar categories in Charles Pellegrino's The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back book and Paul Ham's Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • japan
Cover of Auschwitz by Laurence Rees

2. Auschwitz

By: Laurence Rees

4.30

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fu… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"A diferencia del estalinismo y otras dictaduras que se apropiaron, sin más, del poder, el nazismo se sustentó en una base popular."

-Laurence Rees, Auschwitz

Cover of Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard

3. Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

By: Susan Southard

4.26

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and unflinching account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, told through the stories … read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • japan
Cover of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1) by Mark Lewisohn

5. Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

By: Mark Lewisohn

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tune Inis the first volume of All These Years--a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical tr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath by Paul Ham

6. Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

By: Paul Ham

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first narrative history of the nuclear attack told from both the Japanese and American viewpoin… read more

Similar categories in Paul Ham's Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath book and Paul Ham's Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • japan
Cover of I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin, Raoul Peck

7. I Am Not Your Negro

By: James Baldwin , Raoul Peck

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Revolution In The Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties by Ian MacDonald

8. Revolution In The Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties

By: Ian MacDonald

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

'No book has taken us closer to the music of the Beatles' Tony Parsons 'Consistently brilliant' SUN… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Paul McCartney: The Life by Philip Norman

9. Paul McCartney: The Life

By: Philip Norman

4.14

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip… read more

Similar categories in Philip Norman's Paul McCartney: The Life book and Paul Ham's Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

  • nonfiction
  • history

10. Hiroshima

By: John Hersey

3.50

Format: 36 pages,

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more

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11. Bill the Bastard: The Story Of Australia's Greatest War Horse

By: Roland Perry

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Bill was massive. He had power, intelligence and unmatched courage. In performance and character, h… read more

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12. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

By: Max Hastings

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly globa… read more

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13. The Shankill Butchers: The Real Story of Cold-Blooded Mass Murder

By: Martin Dillon

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Paperback

Reprint of the 1989 edition with a new afterword. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (book… read more

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14. Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

By: Max Hastings

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

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15. Contest

By: Matthew Reilly

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

The New York Public Library. A silent sanctuary of knowledge; a 100-year-old labyrinth of towering … read more

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Cover of Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M.M. Blume

16. Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

By: Lesley M.M. Blume

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter un… read more

Similar categories in Lesley M.M. Blume's Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World book and Paul Ham's Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • japan
"History is history,"

-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

"Hiroshima was a decimated “death laboratory"

-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

"War is ethically totally different from peace,"

-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

"I covered it up, and John Hersey uncovered it,"

-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

Cover of Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II by Svetlana Alexievich

17. Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

By: Svetlana Alexievich

4.49

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Stunning stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the … read more

Similar categories in Svetlana Alexievich's Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II book and Paul Ham's Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself."

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"En la guerra hi penso per mirar de comprendre-la... Si no, de què serveix?"

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"Ningú no volia conèixer ningú, perquè l’endemà aquella persona podia morir."

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"А однажды на улице встретила мужчину, похожего на папу. Как мой папа. Долго шла за ним… Я же не видела папу мертвым…"

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

Cover of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh

18. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

Similar categories in Raja Shehadeh's We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I book and Paul Ham's Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Record Play Pause by Stephen  Morris

19. Record Play Pause

By: Stephen Morris

4.38

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer 'Gritty coming-of-age… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Morris's Record Play Pause book and Paul Ham's Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

  • nonfiction
Cover of Travellers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd

20. Travellers in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.05

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

13 must-read history books like Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath by Paul Ham

Transform Your Habits

The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back

Charles Pellegrino

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Auschwitz

Laurence Rees

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

Susan Southard

4.26

Transform Your Habits

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

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12 must-read audiobook books like Record Play Pause by Stephen Morris

Transform Your Habits

Set the Boy Free

Johnny Marr

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Owen Jones

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

Alan Partridge

4.27

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Face It

Debbie Harry

3.61

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