Five days in August : how World War II became a nuclear war / Michael D. Gordin

Author:: Gordin, Michael D.
Published:: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007]
Copyright Date:: ©2007
Physical Description:: xv, 209 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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Contents:

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- ch. 1. Endings -- ch. 2. Shock -- ch. 3. Special -- ch. 4. Miracle -- ch. 5. Papacy -- ch. 6. Revolution -- ch. 7. Beginnings -- Coda : On the scholarly literature -- Abbreviations used in notes -- Notes -- Index.

Subject(s):

Atomic bomb—United States—History
World War, 1939-1945—Japan
Capitulations, Military—Japan—History—20th century
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)—History—Bombardment, 1945
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)—History—Bombardment, 1945

ISBN:

0691128189
9780691128184

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-193) and index.

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