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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
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Author:
Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss
Publisher:
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Date:
June 9, 2020
A behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to America's attack on Hiroshima.
What The Reviewers Say
On one hand, the book reads like a riveting novel as Wallace reveals the machinations and internal debates among the scientific community to devise a workable atomic bomb as quickly as possible...But Countdown 1945 is also a profound story of decision making at the highest levels — and of pathos.
You’ve heard about it in school, movies and novels, but the true story, told in Chris Wallace and Mitch Weiss’ Countdown 1945, is more exciting than those tomes you cracked open in American history class.
... Wallace has made a taut nonfiction thriller out of the dramatic days between Harry S. Truman’s succession to the presidency.
... contains no surprises and will quell no controversies. But it is a compelling and highly readable account of one of the most fateful decisions in American history.
