Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:D. M. Giangreco, John T. Kuehn (Foreword by)Publish date:2023-08-01Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:Potomac BooksISBN-13:9781640120730ISBN-10:1640120734UPC:9781640120730Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, United StatesBook Topic:World War II, 20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.06 x 1.42 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCSQ5NQ3NM
Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story
Many myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman's decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. In destroying these myths, Truman and the Bomb will discomfort both Truman's critics and his supporters, and force historians to reexamine what they think they know about the end of the Pacific War.
Myth: Truman didn't know of the atomic bomb's development before he becam...Language:EnglishPublisher:Potomac BooksISBN-13:9781640120730ISBN-10:1640120734UPC:9781640120730Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, United StatesBook Topic:World War II, 20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.06 x 1.42 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCSQ5NQ3NM
D. M. Giangreco served as an editor of the Military Review for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College for twenty years and then as the editor and publications director for the Foreign Military Studies Office in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is the award-winning author or coauthor of fourteen books on military and sociopolitical subjects, including Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the...
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