BOOKS BOMBING JAPAN

 

SHORT LIST

Barrett, David Dean, 140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon, Diversion Books; Illustrated edition, 2020

Bird, Kai, Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Vintage Books; Reprint edition, 2006

Blume, Lesley M. M. Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World, Simon & Schuster; Illustrated Edition, 2020

Conant, Jennet, 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2006

Conant, Jennet, Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist, Simon & Schuster, 2017

Conant, Jennet, Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II, Simon & Schuster, 2003

Craig, William, The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific, Open Road Media; Reissue edition, 2017

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Flash of Light, Wall of Fire: Japanese Photographs Documenting the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, University of Texas Press, 2020

Frank, Richard B., Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, Penguin Books; Illustrated edition, 2001

Giangreco, D. M., Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947, Naval Institute Press; Updated, Expanded ed. Edition, 2017

Groves, Leslie R., Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project, Da Capo Press; Reprint edition, 1983

Hachiya, Michihiko, Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945, University of North Carolina Press, 1995

Ham, Paul, Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath, Picador; Reprint edition, 2015

Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan, Belknap Press: An Imprint of HarvardUniversity Press, 2006

Hogan, Michael J., Hiroshima in History and Memory, CambridgeUniversity Press, 1996

The Manhattan Engineer District, The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshim and Nagasaki, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

 

Miscamble, Wilson D., The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan (Cambridge Essential Histories), Cambridge University Press; Illustrated edition, 2011

Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Simon & Schuster; Anniversary, Reprint edition, 1986

Sherwin, Martin J., Robert J. Lifton (Foreword), A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, Stanford University Press; 3rd edition, 2003

Southard, Susan, Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2016

Szasz, Ferenc Morton, The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945, University of New Mexico Press, 1984

Walker, J. Samuel, Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, University of North Carolina Press; Third edition, 2016

Wallace, Chris, Mitch Weiss, Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster; Illustrated edition, 2020

OTHERS

Alperovitz, Gar, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, Vintage; First Printing edition, 1996

Boyer, Paul, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, University of North Carolina Press, 1994

Christman, Al, Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb, Naval Institute Press; Reprint edition, 2014

Chun, Clayton K. S. John White, Japan 1945: From Operation Downfall to Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Campaign), Osprey Publishing, 2008

Delgado, James P., Nuclear Dawn: From the Manhattan Project to Bikini Atoll (General Military), Osprey Publishing; 1st Printing edition, 2009

Goldstein, Donald M., J. Michael Wenger, Rain of Ruin: A Photographic History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (America Goes to War), Potomac Books, 1999

Gordin, Professor Michael D., Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War, Princeton University Press; Reprint edition, 2015

Gordin, Professor Michael D., G. John Ikenberry, The Age of Hiroshima, Princeton University Press, 2020

Hein, Laura E., Mark Selden, Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age (Japan in the Modern World), Routledge, 1996

Herken, Gregg, Brotherhood of the Bomb, Holt Paperbacks, 2003

Lifton, Robert Jay, Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, University of North Carolina Press, 1991

Preston, Diana, Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima, Berkley, 2006

Sherwin, Martin J., A World Destroyed Hiroshima and its Legacies, Stanford University Press; 3 edition, 2003

Takaki, Ronald, Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb, Back Bay Books; Reprint edition, 1996