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

from Opinionated

A superb account of the events leading up to, and the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the far less successful (from a military perspective) drop on Nagasaki. Ham puts a few myths to bed - namely that the use of atomic weapons saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of American s...

from patrickgarson

An exhaustive, horrifying, terrific work of history and journalism. Paul Ham has written an incredibly comprehensive book about the dropping of the atomic bombs. Virtually any question you have will be answered somewhere in the course of the book. Ham's primary objectives seem to be relating even...

from Sullywriter

This is the best book on the subject I've read yet, a superbly researched and absorbing narrative. I particularly like how Ham alternates between the American and Japanese perspectives. He effectively shatters the popularly held belief that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justi...

from zappa

I purchased Ham's tome because I have long held a genuine sense that I really did not have my head around the complexities of the Japanese bombing. Coming from my perspective, driven not least by exhaustive readings of the theology of Jürgen Moltmann, that the world changed dreadfully on July 16,...

from Stbalbach

A little longer and more detailed than I would have liked, but convincingly takes on one of the great historical questions - was the use of the bomb justified. It's terribly complex and still being vigorously argued, this is probably the best introduction. As an Australian Paul Ham seems to have ...