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Charles Pellegrino · 413 pages
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.
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Herbert P. Bix · 800 pages
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix shows what it was like to be trained from bir
Japan at War: An Oral History
Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook · 479 pages
This pathbreaking work of oral history captures for the first time ever - in either Japanese or English - the remarkable story of ordinary Japanese people during World War II. In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook take us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese homefront during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
John W. Dower · 680 pages
John Dower, distinguished historian of modern Japan, casts his eye on the immediate aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources, this new study illuminates how shattering defeat followed by over six years of American military occupation affected every level of Japanese society in ways that neither the victor nor the vanquished could anticipate. The great achievement of
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · 514 pages
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Se
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Susan Southard · 402 pages
This book is a powerful and unflinching account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, told through the stories of those who survived. On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan's southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
John Willard Toland · 954 pages
Comprehensive account of the military and political events that led to Pearl Harbor, the war in the Pacific, and Japan's defeat; based on interviews with participants, and told from a Japanese point of view.
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Paul Ham · 640 pages
In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War.
Inventing Japan: 1853-1964
Ian Buruma · 192 pages
LA Times Book Award winner and expert on the past and present Japan, Ian Buruma examines the transformation of a country. Following Japan's history from its opening to the West in 1853 to its hosting of the 1964 Olympics, Buruma focuses on how figures such as Commodore Matthew Perry, Douglas MacArthur, and Emperor Mitsushito helped shape this complex country.
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
Jonathan Fetter-Vorm · 154 pages
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
Max Hastings · 656 pages
By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan's defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained unclear. The ensuing drama--that ended in Japan's utter devastation--was acted out across the vast theater of Asia in massive clashes between army, air, and naval forces.In recounting these extraordinary events, Max Hastings draws incisive portraits of MacArthur, Mao, Roos
Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy
Eri Hotta · 344 pages
Examines the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective.
Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
Pamela Rotner Sakamoto · 444 pages
"'Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II--an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.-Japan relations and the Japanese experience in America. After their father's death, Harry, Frank, and Pierce Fuk
Hiroshima
John Hersey · 118 pages
Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard · 384 pages
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. This book takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, w
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Michael Norman, Elizabeth M. Norman · 463 pages
Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation, dehydr
The Twilight Warriors: The Deadliest Naval Battle of World War II and the Men Who Fought It
Robert Gandt · 385 pages
Band of Brothers at sea and in the skies, 340 miles off the coast of Japan. The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final -- and most brutal -- battle of the Pacific war: Okinawa. April 1945. The end of World War II finally appears to be nearing. The Third Reich is collapsing in Europe, and the Americans are overpo
Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
Michihiko Hachiya · 256 pages
The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness.
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
Caren Stelson · 144 pages
This striking piece of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six year old Sachiko Yasui's miraculous survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath. Based on extensive interviews with Sachiko Yasui, Caren Stelson shares the true story of a young girl who survived the atomic bomb and chronicles her long journey to find peace. Sachiko offer
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Edward Dolnick · 384 pages
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
Tanya Lee Stone · 147 pages
Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of Japanese Internment
Kimi Cunningham Grant · 288 pages
The House on Garibaldi Street,
Isser Harel · 289 pages
Adolph Eichmann was found by the Israeli Security Services: he was one of the greatest Nazi criminals together with the Nazi leaders, for what they called "The Final Solution of the Jewish Problem."
The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism
Stanley Cloud, Lynne Olson · 480 pages