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A World Destroyed
- Author
- Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrator
- John Lescault
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 14 July 2010
- Run Time
- 8 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1973, this is the classic history of Hiroshima and the origins of the arms race, from the development of the American atomic bomb to the decision to use it against Japan and the beginnings of US atomic diplomacy toward the Soviet Union. In the introduction, the author describes and evaluates the lengthening trail of new evidence that has come to light concerning these often emotionally debated subjects. He also invokes his experience as a historical advisor to the controversial, aborted 1995 Enola Gay exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, which leads him to analyze the impact on American democracy of one of the most insidious legacies of Hiroshima: the political control of historical interpretation.
Critics Review
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“Sure to be the definitive study of these particular questions.”
Noam Chomsky
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“The quality of Sherwin’s research and the strength of his argument are far superior to previous accounts.”
New York Times Book Review
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“A dispassionate, richly detailed account that promises…to be the definitive book on the formation of atomic-energy policy during World War II.”
Time
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“One of those rare achievements of conscientious scholarship, a book at once graceful and luminous, yet loyal to its documentation and restrained in its speculations.”
Boston Globe
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Details
- Author
- Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrator
- John Lescault
- Duration
- 8 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 July 2010
- ISBN
- 9781481584623
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Asian history, Nuclear weapons, Military history, Second World War, History of the Americas, General and world history, International relations
Synopsis
Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1973, this is the classic history of Hiroshima and the origins of the arms race, from the development of the American atomic bomb to the decision to use it against Japan and the beginnings of US atomic diplomacy toward the Soviet Union. In the introduction, the author describes and evaluates the lengthening trail of new evidence that has come to light concerning these often emotionally debated subjects. He also invokes his experience as a historical advisor to the controversial, aborted 1995 Enola Gay exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, which leads him to analyze the impact on American democracy of one of the most insidious legacies of Hiroshima: the political control of historical interpretation.
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