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  • Non-fiction
  • 2025
  • First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.

The devil reached toward the sky

an oral history of the making & unleashing of the atomic bomb

Garrett M. Graff, (1981-)

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"On the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Pulitzer Prize finalist whose work is 'oral history at its finest' (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) delivers an epic narrative of the atomic bomb's creation and deployment, woven from the voices of hundreds of scientists, generals, soldiers, and civilians. Drawing from dozens of oral history archives and hundreds of books, reports, letters, diaries, and transcripts from across the US, Japan, and Europe, Graff masterfully blends the memories and perspectives from the known and unknown -- key figures like J. Robert Oppenheimer, General Leslie Groves, and President Truman; the crews of the B-29 bombers; and the haunting stories of the Hibakusha -- the 'bomb-affected people.' Both a testament to human ingenuity and resilience and a compelling drama told by the participants who lived it, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky is a singular, profound, and searing book about the inception of our most powerful weapon and its haunting legacy"--

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Title Statement The devil reached toward the sky: an oral history of the making & unleashing of the atomic bomb / Garrett M. Graff.
Author Graff, Garrett M., 1981-
Publication New York: Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster,2025.
Edition First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Extent of Item xxxii, 567 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
ISBN 9781668092392 (hardcover)
Other Number pr07918279
General Notes Colour maps on endpapers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "On the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Pulitzer Prize finalist whose work is 'oral history at its finest' (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) delivers an epic narrative of the atomic bomb's creation and deployment, woven from the voices of hundreds of scientists, generals, soldiers, and civilians. Drawing from dozens of oral history archives and hundreds of books, reports, letters, diaries, and transcripts from across the US, Japan, and Europe, Graff masterfully blends the memories and perspectives from the known and unknown -- key figures like J. Robert Oppenheimer, General Leslie Groves, and President Truman; the crews of the B-29 bombers; and the haunting stories of the Hibakusha -- the 'bomb-affected people.' Both a testament to human ingenuity and resilience and a compelling drama told by the participants who lived it, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky is a singular, profound, and searing book about the inception of our most powerful weapon and its haunting legacy"--
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Atomic bomb--History--United States
Atomic bomb victims--Japan
Military planning--History--20th century--United States
World War, 1939-1945--United States
World War, 1939-1945--Japan
By Name Manhattan Project (U.S.)
By Location Japan--History--1926-1945
United States--History--1933-1945
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