In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombing
A searing indictment of the rationale behind the First World War and a shocking portrayal of what might have been.In August 1914, the European powers plunged the world into a war that would kill or wo
The discovered diary of Yoko, a 13-year-old Japanese girl who lived near Hiroshima during the war. The diary is one little girl s vision of her world as it closes in and destroys her. She is a highly
In August 1914, the European powers plunged the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set the world on cour
The untold story of the Sandakan Death Marches of World War II. This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war, a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fa
The brilliantly told but harrowing story of the Borneo Death Marches of 1944-5. After the fall of Singapore in 1942, the conquering Japanese Army transferred some 2500 British and Australian pris
In one of the defining moments of twentieth century, more than 100,000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US Air Force B29s. This title tells the sto
When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years old. It was a time he would later call the “most stupendous experience of my life.”That war ended with Hitler in a hospital bed, temporarily
In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham passionately argues that the nuclear attacks had little impact on the outcome of the Pacific War and thus were unnecessary. M
