Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War by Michael D. Gordin

Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War

Michael D. Gordin

209 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
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Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bo...

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