THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read'

At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In an instant, the temperature at its core rose to millions of degrees. Sixty-thousand buildings were obliterated. A third of the city's population died, by heat, by the blast, and by a terrible new weapon in the history of warfare: radiation.

In this riveting account, Stephen Walker follows the stories of real people in the extraordinary weeks leading up to the explosion and in its aftermath. From the atomic engineer who armed the bomb in mid-air to the Japanese doctors treating thousands of burnt bodies on the ground. From the flight crews and scientists to world leaders and civilian victims. With intimate testimony and remarkable stories, this is the startling narrative behind the dawn of the atomic age.

• We started tracking this book on April 9, 2020.
• This book was £5.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 129 times in the past 1,759 days.
• The current price of this book is £3.99 last checked 2 hours ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past year.
• The lowest price to date was £0.99 last reached on August 5, 2020.
• This book has been £0.99 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £6.99 last reached on February 13, 2022.
• This book has been £6.99 7 times since we started tracking it.

• HistoryAsia
• Professional & TechnicalTechnology & Engineering
• HistoryMilitary

• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 448 Pages
• File Size: 26,149 KB