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To Hell and Back
- The Last Train from Hiroshima
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
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On April 12, 1945, a fleet of American B-29 bombers flew toward Japan. Their mission was simple: Stop World War II by burning the cities, factories, and military bases of the Japanese empire, thereby forcing an unconditional surrender. But it didn't go as planned. Onboard one of the B-29s, the City of Los Angeles, a phosphorus bomb detonated inside the plane. Staff Sergeant Henry E. "Red" Erwin absorbed the blast of burning phosphorus and managed to throw the still-flaming bomb overboard before collapsing from the third-degree burns that covered his body.
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One of the best books I’ve ever listened to!!!
- De katherine en 09-15-20
De: Jon Erwin, y otros
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The Sisters of Auschwitz
- The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
- De: Roxane van Iperen
- Narrado por: Susan Hoffman
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozen of lives, were captured by the Nazis, and ultimately survived the Holocaust.
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A Miss
- De FritzFamily en 10-06-21
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A Train Near Magdeburg
- A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust
- De: Matthew Rozell
- Narrado por: Nick Cracknell
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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From the author of The Things Our Fathers Saw in the World War II eyewitness history series comes this book, offering the true story behind an iconic photograph taken at the liberation of a death train, deep in the heart of Nazi Germany. It's brought to life by the history teacher who discovered it and went on to reunite hundreds of Holocaust survivors with the actual American soldiers who saved them.
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important story
- De Amazon Customer en 04-04-20
De: Matthew Rozell
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The Great Halifax Explosion
- A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
- De: John U. Bacon
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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From best-selling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima. On Monday, December 3, 1917, the French freighter SS Mont-Blanc set sail from Brooklyn carrying the largest cache of explosives ever loaded onto a ship, including 2,300 tons of picric acid, an unstable, poisonous chemical more powerful than TNT.
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Too much hostility towards Americans
- De bigdaddyKT en 12-14-19
De: John U. Bacon
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Dutch Girl
- Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- De: Robert Matzen, Luca Dotti - foreword
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense experiences through five years of Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. According to her son, Luca Dotti, "The war made my mother who she was."
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Good story, poor narration
- De sas en 07-09-19
De: Robert Matzen, y otros
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Desert Notebooks
- A Road Map for the End of Time
- De: Ben Ehrenreich
- Narrado por: David Bendena
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, Desert Notebooks offers a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present - perfect for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Elizabeth Rush - that’s unflinching, urgent, and yet timeless and profound.
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Not about the desert, Not about Joshua Tree
- De Steve en 07-12-20
De: Ben Ehrenreich
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- De: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than eighteen thousand people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan’s greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways.
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Riveting True Story You Didn't Hear On The News
- De Kathy in CA en 07-05-18
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The Railway Man
- De: Eric Lomax
- Narrado por: Bill Paterson
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences.
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From hatred to forgiveness
- De 9S en 05-04-12
De: Eric Lomax
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Love and Other Ways of Dying
- Essays
- De: Michael Paterniti
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge.
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Incredibly intimate voice for humanity
- De Ed Hodges en 01-02-16
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Black Snow
- Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
- De: James M. Scott
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed. Black Snow is the story of this devastating operation, orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay, who famously remarked: "If we lose the war, we'll be tried as war criminals."
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Top notch!
- De anonymous en 10-24-22
De: James M. Scott
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The Peshtigo Fire of 1871
- A Captivating Guide to the Deadliest Wildfire in the History of the United States of America That Occurred in Northeastern Wisconsin
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 3 h y 3 m
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It’s likely true that most people picking up this book have never even heard of a place called Peshtigo. This is hardly surprising. This little town on the shores of Lake Michigan is hardly a remarkable place in the modern day. Its residents number less than 4,000, and there’s nothing particularly special about it at first glance. But one does have to look twice at its motto. “A city rebuilt from the ashes.” Peshtigo may be just another small Wisconsin town today, but 150 years ago, it really was nothing but ashes.
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Great story...even with the usual America bashing
- De Pat Newell en 07-12-21
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Midnight in Broad Daylight
- A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
- De: Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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After their father's death, Harry, Frank, and Pierce Fukuhara - all born and raised in the Pacific Northwest - moved to Hiroshima, their mother's ancestral home. Eager to go back to his own land - America - Harry returned in the late 1930s. Then came Pearl Harbor. Despite being sent to an internment camp, Harry dutifully volunteered to serve his country. Back in Hiroshima, his brothers, Frank and Pierce, became soldiers in the Japanese Imperial Army.
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A must listen
- De Jon en 02-01-16
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Facing the Mountain
- A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
- De: Daniel James Brown
- Narrado por: Louis Ozawa
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
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In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa, Fred Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil.
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Wow
- De Tbone McCoy en 06-13-21
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Into the Forest
- A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
- De: Rebecca Frankel
- Narrado por: Natalie Pela
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war, they trekked across the Alps into Italy, where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States.
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Great story with an added benefit
- De Scottsville Stu en 12-30-21
De: Rebecca Frankel
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Hiroshima Diary
- The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
- De: Michihiko Hachiya MD
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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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. Dr. Hachiya's compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Skip the 30min intro.
- De EErele en 05-09-15
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Now It Can Be Told
- De: Philip Gibbs
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 19 h y 19 m
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Sir Philip Gibbs served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. In this book he relays the experiences of British soldiers and offers a detailed narrative of the events of World War I, while trying to draw broader conclusions about the nature of war and how it can be prevented in the future.
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An unusually worthwhile listen.
- De Alan en 08-19-18
De: Philip Gibbs
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Burning the Sky
- Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
- De: Mark Wolverton
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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After the Soviet Union proved to the United States that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. Amid this rising tension, eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack: detonating nuclear warheads in space to create an artificial radiation belt that would fry incoming ICBMs. Known as Operation Argus, this plan is the most secret and riskiest experiment in history, and classified details of these nuclear tests have been long obscured.
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Extraordinary interesting history
- De Magnus Almgren en 10-23-20
De: Mark Wolverton
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War's End
- An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission
- De: Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, James A. Antonucci - contributor, Marion K. Antonucci - contributor
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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On August 9, 1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a 25-year-old American Army Air Corps major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary conclusion.... The last military officer to command an atomic mission, Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney has the unique distinction of having been an integral part of both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki bombing runs.
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Awesome look at the first and second drip.
- De Daryl Bergmann en 04-26-24
De: Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, y otros
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Hiroshima Nagasaki
- De: Paul Ham
- Narrado por: Robert Meldrum
- Duración: 20 h y 58 m
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The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children, and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice", American leaders claimed at the time - and still today most people believe they ended the Pacific War and saved millions of American and Japanese lives. Ham challenges this view, arguing that the bombings, when Japan was on its knees, were the culmination of a strategic Allied air war on enemy civilians that began in Germany.
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While extraordinary, I can only give it 3 stars
- De Gillian en 12-17-14
De: Paul Ham
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Hiroshima
- De: John Hersey
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times).
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Must read book
- De Kindle Customer en 08-06-20
De: John Hersey
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Hiroshima Diary
- The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
- De: Michihiko Hachiya MD
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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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. Dr. Hachiya's compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Skip the 30min intro.
- De EErele en 05-09-15
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Now It Can Be Told
- De: Philip Gibbs
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 19 h y 19 m
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Sir Philip Gibbs served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. In this book he relays the experiences of British soldiers and offers a detailed narrative of the events of World War I, while trying to draw broader conclusions about the nature of war and how it can be prevented in the future.
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An unusually worthwhile listen.
- De Alan en 08-19-18
De: Philip Gibbs
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Burning the Sky
- Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
- De: Mark Wolverton
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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After the Soviet Union proved to the United States that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. Amid this rising tension, eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack: detonating nuclear warheads in space to create an artificial radiation belt that would fry incoming ICBMs. Known as Operation Argus, this plan is the most secret and riskiest experiment in history, and classified details of these nuclear tests have been long obscured.
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Extraordinary interesting history
- De Magnus Almgren en 10-23-20
De: Mark Wolverton
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War's End
- An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission
- De: Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, James A. Antonucci - contributor, Marion K. Antonucci - contributor
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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On August 9, 1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a 25-year-old American Army Air Corps major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary conclusion.... The last military officer to command an atomic mission, Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney has the unique distinction of having been an integral part of both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki bombing runs.
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Awesome look at the first and second drip.
- De Daryl Bergmann en 04-26-24
De: Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, y otros
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Hiroshima Nagasaki
- De: Paul Ham
- Narrado por: Robert Meldrum
- Duración: 20 h y 58 m
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The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children, and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice", American leaders claimed at the time - and still today most people believe they ended the Pacific War and saved millions of American and Japanese lives. Ham challenges this view, arguing that the bombings, when Japan was on its knees, were the culmination of a strategic Allied air war on enemy civilians that began in Germany.
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While extraordinary, I can only give it 3 stars
- De Gillian en 12-17-14
De: Paul Ham
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Hiroshima
- De: John Hersey
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times).
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Must read book
- De Kindle Customer en 08-06-20
De: John Hersey
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Plutopia
- Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
- De: Kate Brown
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 18 h y 10 m
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To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias - communities of nuclear families living in highly subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Fully employed and medically monitored, the residents of Richland and Ozersk enjoyed all the pleasures of consumer society while nearby, migrants, prisoners, and soldiers were banned from plutopia - they lived in temporary "staging grounds" and often performed the most dangerous work at the plant.
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Mourning an Eternity of Radioactive Pollution
- De Will Szal en 01-01-19
De: Kate Brown
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Rising Sun, Falling Skies
- The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
- De: Jeffrey Cox
- Narrado por: Theodore O'Brien
- Duración: 22 h y 49 m
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Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific - Borneo, Sumatra, and Java - in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign.
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The first months of the war were frightening.
- De michael s en 10-07-22
De: Jeffrey Cox
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140 Days to Hiroshima
- The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon
- De: David Dean Barrett
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this heart-pounding account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armageddon on August 6, 1945. Here are the secret strategy sessions, fierce debates, looming assassinations, and planned invasions that resulted in history’s first use of nuclear weapons in combat, and the ensuing chaotic days as the Japanese government struggled to respond to the reality of nuclear war.
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Never Giving Up
- De Rick B en 07-11-20
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Nagasaki
- Life After Nuclear War
- De: Susan Southard
- Narrado por: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
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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 injured. Published on the 70th anniversary of the bombing, Nagasaki takes listeners from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the firsthand experiences of five survivors, all of whom were teenagers at the time of the devastation.
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Truly, A Heartrending Horrorshow
- De Gillian en 12-21-17
De: Susan Southard
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Tower of Skulls
- A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Vol. 1 (July 1937 - May 1942)
- De: Richard B. Frank
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 26 h y 23 m
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This story casts penetrating light on how struggles in Europe and Asia merged into a tightly entwined global war. It features not just battles, but also the sweeping political, economic, and social effects of the war, and are graced with a rich tapestry of individual characters from top-tier political and military figures down to ordinary servicemen, as well as the accounts of civilians of all races and ages.
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Outstanding
- De Patrick en 03-16-20
De: Richard B. Frank
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U.S.S. Seawolf
- Submarine Raider of the Pacific
- De: Gerold Frank, James D. Horan, Joseph Eckberg
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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The USS Seawolf was one of the greatest submarine raiders of all time. Having narrowly avoided the attack on Pearl Harbor the Seawolf set out for the seas of the Pacific to wreak havoc on Japanese shipping. Joseph Melvin Eckberg was on the Seawolf from her maiden voyage and remained with her until January 1943. As chief radioman he was instrumental in assisting Captain Frederick Warder to find and destroy enemy targets. From the claustrophobia of being trapped under water and the overwhelming fear of depth charges to the joys of aiding the war-effort and the camaraderie on the ship.
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Unfortunately not very good
- De Jason en 03-29-18
De: Gerold Frank, y otros
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Invading Hitler's Europe
- From Salerno to the Capture of Göring: The Memoir of a US Intelligence Officer
- De: Roswell K. Doughty, Reiner Decher - introduction
- Narrado por: Christopher Douyard
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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On the day that Roswell K. Doughty graduated from Boston University, he also received a commission as a second lieutenant in the army of the United States of America. It was not until 1942 that he was called to active duty—to face some of the toughest fighting of the Second World War. He subsequently saw action in North Africa, then at the disastrous Salerno landings in Italy - where the Allied divisions involved suffered 4,000 casualties—about which the author reveals that suspected intelligence breaches led to the Allies' plans becoming known to the Germans.
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excellent
- De Rosendo en 11-01-22
De: Roswell K. Doughty, y otros
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Prompt and Utter Destruction
- Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, Third Edition
- De: J. Samuel Walker
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 4 h y 47 m
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In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research - mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available - that provides fresh insight on the strategic considerations that led to dropping the bomb.
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Bullshit woke end
- De Fav en 12-19-23
De: J. Samuel Walker
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World War II at Sea
- A Global History
- De: Craig L. Symonds
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 25 h y 52 m
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World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords; Mussolini's Regia Marina - at the start of the war the fourth-largest navy in the world - and the dominance of the Kidö Butai and Japanese naval power in the Pacific; Pearl Harbor then Midway; and much more.
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Outstanding
- De Patrick en 02-14-19
De: Craig L. Symonds
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- De: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 29 h y 55 m
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In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-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 describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.
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Not what I bargained for
- De Alexander Crowell en 08-21-20
De: Herbert P. Bix
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The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- De: David E. Hoffman
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 20 h y 46 m
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The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today.The Cold War was an epoch of massive overkill.
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Eye opening
- De Brian en 11-16-10
De: David E. Hoffman
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Countdown 1945
- The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
- De: Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss
- Narrado por: Chris Wallace
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first atomic bomb, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continents—and confront one of the most consequential decisions in history. Countdown 1945 tells the gripping true story of the turbulent days, weeks, and months to follow.
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Chris Wallace killed it!
- De Gaming Pancakes en 06-11-20
De: Chris Wallace, y otros
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- James S. Bridgeforth
- 01-09-23
Powerful Account of Nuclear War
Intensely graphic! Sobering!
This is a gripping story of how people are impacted by nuclear war. Pellegrino gives you all of the details! Warning, his writing is intellectually graphic in a way the reader can feel the pain of the victims and survivors!
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- Mark
- 09-05-20
Really liked it.
The author vividly paints an accurate portrayal of the people in the cities. Big fan.
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- Jay R. Bernhard
- 02-18-22
A Must Read!!
A soul touching account of what happened before, during, and after the atomic bombings. All World Leaders and Milatary Commanders should be required to read this upon taking office.
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- Rc
- 03-26-24
Long term effects of violence/war
A quote from a survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki said
Send forth kindness like a contagious disease
Sutuyo Yamaguchi
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- David Hopkins
- 03-19-24
Everyone should read this book
This is of course going to be a heavy read or rather a heavy listen if you’re using the audiobook version so I recommend having plenty of time to take breaks and reflect on some of the things that you’ll hear. If this is not a topic that you already have a lot of information on then you’re gonna get the full gambit, but it doesn’t do too far into anything happening during the war or pre-war it’s focused, mainly on the events surrounding the two atomic bomb detonations. This book centers around a “on the ground” point of view from an every day observers perspective of what it was like to live through one of these events, which for me was an extremely eye-opening experience. I hope that everyone takes time to read this book to understand the full effect that these weapons have on the world and why they should never be used again.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-09-23
Never again
Nyocodo, not sure how to spell this in Japanese, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you,”show kindness.
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- D.
- 10-17-23
Emotional, must read!
Overall, emotional . Brings whole different world to light. Comes full circle on today's world!
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- Tad Davis
- 09-07-20
The Pica-Don
This is my second attempt to write a review. The first one was filled with graphic images of the dead and dying taken from the book, and these images delivered without warning in a short review would have amounted to an ambush. I will mention only two examples of the carnage wrought by the bombing; they are bad enough, and if you have a weak stomach, skip over the next two paragraphs. Note only that when the second bomb was dropped, it was already known what the effects on the human body would be — and that the effects on tens of thousands of human bodies would be instantaneous and without warning. (Note also that the US government and military have made great efforts in the years since to suppress much of this information.)
Among the many types of never-seen-before wounds in the aftermath of the bombing were the ant people and the alligator people. Ant people were seared and blackened like ants, crawling in a mindless line with others like them, their mouths open in a red circle, trying to scream but able to produce only a low hiss. Alligator people had skin burned and cracked, corrugated like charcoal, segmented into leathery scales: they were still miraculously able to move, but parts of their bodies would drop off as they did so. If they succeeded in making it to water, they disintegrated.
These people didn’t go through a long transformative process to become like ants or alligators. The flash and bang — the “pico-don” — changed them from healthy human beings into charred monsters in less than a fraction of a second — before their brains even had a chance to register that something had happened to them.
As the book nears its end, Pellegrino begins to talk in terms of survival and restoration. The survival was rarely long-term: someone who’d absorbed only a little radiation during the attack could still absorb a fatal dose over time by eating vegetables grown in irradiated ground. And survival was often tinged with guilt. As Pellegrino demonstrates over and over again, survival was often a matter of pure chance as much as anything else. Standing a few inches to the left or right could mean the difference between being shielded by concrete and steel and being incinerated. But people who lived through it couldn’t see it that way. If I hadn’t given them that water to drink, would they have lived? If I had gone back, could I have saved him? And worst of all, why did I leave her to die alone? Even when bodies were not torn and broken, sometimes families and friendships were.
Those known to have been exposed to radiation were often treated like lepers. Pending marriages were broken off when it was discovered that one of the partners was a survivor of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Many survivors hid their status, wearing long garments to cover burns, never talking about what they had seen.
Restoration and rebuilding often meant simply covering over the ashes. When the rivers flowed peacefully again, they harbored on their muddy bottoms the skulls of thousands.
But there were others who worked with great reserves of spiritual strength to truly rebuild. Some placed emphasis on the concept of “omoiyari” — compassion, empathy, putting the other person first, anticipating the other person’s needs: paying it forward. To read about these people, especially in a chapter filled with the refrain “A was dead; B was dead; C was dead; D was dead” — is to be genuinely shocked at how resilient people — SOME people — can be.
Pellegrino writes with clinical precision about the chemical and biological changes taking place in those first few milliseconds. But don’t let the language of detachment fool you: this man is angry. He may be writing an account filled with the terminology of biochemistry and physics, but he never loses sight of the fact that he’s writing about human beings, and he never lets you forget it either. (This is a quality that characterizes his many books about the Titanic as well.) Pellegrino wants us to see and know and feel what an atomic bomb does to a human body and a human soul, and throughout his account there is a steady drumbeat: never again. Never again. Never again.
The narrator, David Colacci, does a superb job communicating both the technical precision and the deep compassion that inform the book.
This is an important book. I might even go so far as to say it is one of the most important books I have ever read. I am rarely able to say this about a book, but I am not the same person I was when I started reading it. Arguments about the relative merits of ending the war this way or that crumble in the face of this horrific narrative.
Or to quote one of the survivors: NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH CIVILIZATION.
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- Ben DiIorio
- 12-11-22
A Necessary Read For All
Haunting and poignant, disturbing but necessary, everyone should know the stories of the survivors of the atom bomb.
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- Tigerlily
- 02-14-24
Scientifically fascinating, and absolutely enthralling and disturbing. 
I truly believe that everyone alive should listen to this book. I also would like to give a warning that it does show that the most intelligent people in the world are sometimes the dumbest. Yes… I am speaking of Einstein, Oppenheimer, and everyone else who was esteemed to be the most intelligent people in the world. Perhaps we need to redefine our definition of intelligence. This book is not for the faint of heart and at the same time it’s something that I think is a very important part of our history. We must read this and remember to never let this happen again.
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