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Atomic bomb Atomic bomb Blast effect Atomic bomb History Enola Gay (Bomber) Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Juvenile literature Nagasaki-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Tibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield) 1915-2007 World War, 1939-1945 Japan Hiroshima-shi World War, 1939-1945 United StatesLangley, Andrew.
Summary: Describes the events surrounding the World War II bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, discussing the long term repercussions and the overall results from a military standpoint.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5425 LANCoerr, Eleanor.
Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1977
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SASBrallier, Jess M
Summary: "By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the fighting continued between American forces and the Japanese, who were losing but determined to fight till the bitter end. And so it fell to a new president--Harry S. Truman--to make the fateful decision to drop two atomic bombs--one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki--and bring the war to rapid close. Now, even seventy years later, can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What BrallierSummary: An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished prespective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2004
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORWheeler, Keith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORPellegrino, Charles R.
Summary: Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices detonated over Japan changed life on Earth forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 PELMalloy, Sean L. (Sean Langdon)
Contents: Introduction : "Its use must weigh heavily on our minds and on our hearts" -- The education of Henry L. Stimson -- The road to Pearl Harbor -- "A most terrible thing" -- "The international situation" -- The ordeal of Henry L. Stimson -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki by way of Potsdam -- The last full measure -- "The full enumeration of the steps in the tragedy" -- Conclusion : "a grave and continuing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MALDean Barrett, David
Summary: On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this war-room account from inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan leading to Armageddon on August 6, 1945. Here are the strategy sessions, fierce debates, looming assassinations, and planned invasions that resulted in history's first use of nuclear weapons in combat, and the ensuing chaotic days as Japan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 DEASummary: Enola Gay: Get a look inside the bomber that helped bring WWII to a stop, development of the atomic bomb, and the aftermath. Hiroshima: Fifty years after America dropped the first atomic bomb, this documentary looks at the events leading up to its use in the light of new information about a hidden agenda. Did top military officials order the attack despite knowing that Japan was willing to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ENOCoerr, Eleanor.
Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SASTakaki, Ronald T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 TakakWallace, Chris
Summary: A Fox News Sunday anchor and a Pulitzer Prize-winning AP investigative journalist present a behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings, global events, leadership decisions, and civilian realities that led to the Hiroshima bombing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WALHersey, John
Summary: Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1985
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Summary: On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, the first atomic bomb detonated as expected, resulting in nearly 100,000 deaths. The Japanese surrendered nine days later. But if the bombing of Hiroshima represents one of the signal events of the twentieth century--indeed, in the history of mankind--at the time it was but another episode in an unprecedented drama whose final act had begun three weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 WALHersey, John
Summary: On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb destroyed the city of Hiroshima, Japan. In this book, Hersey reveals what happened that day. Told through the memories of the six survivors, it is a timeless, powerful and compassionate document.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 HERHersey, John
Summary: Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Pathfinder Editions 1966
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.5425 HERTibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mid Coast Marketing 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 TIBRotter, Andrew Jon.
Summary: Reveals the international story behind the creation of the atom bomb and the development of the modern age, as it discusses the crises that led to the Second World War, unsuccessful attempts to control the spread of nuclear weapons, the political and strategic decisions that led to the bomb, and its implications for the modern world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.8 ROTKurzman, Dan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 KURAlperovitz, Gar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 ALPGreene, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 GRELifton, Robert Jay
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 LIFThomas, Gordon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stein and Day 1977