140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon
By: David Dean Barrett
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this heart-pounding …
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1. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
By: Ian W. Toll
4.61
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challe… read more
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2. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
3. The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
By: Gregory Feifer
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the twenty-first… read more
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4. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
By: David Halberstam
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"In a grand gesture of reclamation & remembrance, Mr Halberstam has brought the war back home."--NY… read more
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5. 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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6. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
By: Scott Adams
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you've ever met or anyone you've even hear… read more
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7. Shogun, Part 2
By: James Clavell
3.84
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
"...Shogun beshe nai-visshiia rang, koito niakoi sm'rten mozheshe da dostigne v Iaponiia. Shogun oz… read more
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8. Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam
By: Gregg Jones
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find … read more
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9. The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII
By: Bob Drury
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's h… read more
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10. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
By: Evan Thomas
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a cru… read more
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11. 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
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"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
12. Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
By: Chris Wallace
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying beh… read more
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13. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
By: A.J. Baime
4.55
Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition
The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikel… read more
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"After a few minutes Truman went back inside the White House, so he could call his mother and personally deliver the news: World War II was over. ("That was Harry," ninety-two-year-old Mamma Truman sa…"-A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
14. K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print)
By: Tyler Kepner
4.11
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling histor… read more
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15. Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
By: James M. Scott
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies o… read more
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16. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
By: Keith O'Brien
4.40
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's d… read more
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17. Aftershocks (The Palladium Wars #1)
By: Marko Kloos
4.12
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
Across the six-planet expanse of the Gaia system, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in th… read more
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18. In the Enemy's House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies
By: Howard Blum
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminate… read more
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19. 140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon
By: David Dean Barrett
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this heart-pounding … read more
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20. SEVEN DAYS OF INFAMY accounts of Pearl Harbor from those who watched it unfold (Nicholas Best World War II History)
By: Nicholas Best
4.45
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
A COMPELLING LOOK AT THE TURNING POINT OF WORLD WAR II TOLD BY THOSE WHO WATCHED IT UNFOLD.‘A brisk… read more
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21. Dresden, 1945: The Devil's Tinderbox (Alexander McKee Presents: Key Engagements in World War II)
By: Alexander McKee
3.87
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
The eye-opening definitive account of the horrific fire-bombing of the undefended city of Dresden. … read more
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