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  • Truman and the Hiroshima Cult

    by Robert P. Newman ...
    Series series Rhetoric & Public Affairs
    The United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 to end World War II as quickly and with as few casualties as possible. That is the compelling and elegantly simple argument Newman puts forward in his new study of World War II's end, Truman and the Hiroshima Cult. According to Newman: (1) The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey conclusions that Japan was ready to surrender without "the Bomb" are ... Read more

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  • Truman Fires MacArthur (ebook excerpt of Truman)

    by David McCullough ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Doomsday Machine

    Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

    by Daniel Ellsberg ...
    Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListForeign Affairs Best Books of the YearIn These Times “Best Books of the Year"Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books ListLitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week”</str... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The General vs. the President

    MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

    by H. W. Brands ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil Warcomes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II."A highly readable take on the clash of two titanic figures in a period of hair-trigger nuclear tensions.... History ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Losing Military Supremacy

    The Myopia of American Strategic Planning

    by Andrei Martyanov ...
    Marytanov explains why and how the US armed forces have lost the military supremacy they thought they once had and how Russia, which supposedly had been defeated in the Cold War, succeeded not only in catching up with USA, but actually surpassing it in many key domains such as long range cruise missiles, diesel-electric submarines, air defenses, electronic warfare, air superiority and many others. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • War without Mercy

    Race and Power in the Pacific War (NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER)

    by John Dower ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.”In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 1941: Fighting the Shadow War

    A Divided America in a World at War

    by Marc Wortman ...
    "A wide-ranging examination of America's entry into World War II." — Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewIn 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, A Divided America in a World at War, historian Marc Wortman thrillingly explores the little-known history of America's clandestine involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor.Prior to that infamous day, America had long been involved in a shadow war ... Read more

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  • World War II

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gerhard L. Weinberg ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then did it come about that there was a Second World War causing twice the 30 million deaths and many times more destruction as had been caused in the previous conflict? In this Very Short Introduction, Gerhard L. Weinberg provides an ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Pearl Harbor

    The Verdict of History

    by Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon ...
    The New York Times–bestselling authors of Miracle at Midway delve into the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII in "a superb work of history" ( Albuquerque Journal Magazine).In the predawn hours of December 7, 1941, a Japanese carrier group sailed toward Hawaii. A few minutes before 8:00 a.m., they received the order to rain death on the American base at Pearl Harbor, sinking dozens of ... Read more

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  • The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

    by Gar Alperovitz ...
    With a new preface by the authorControversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb against Japan. Alperovitz criticizes one of the most hotly debated precursory events to the Cold War, an event that was largely responsible for the evolution of post-World War II American politics and culture. ... Read more

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  • Road to Surrender

    Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

    by Evan Thomas ...
    A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan—a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history—with you-are-there immediacy by the New York Times bestselling author of Ike’s Bluff and Sea of Thunder.“As Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer shows, the shockwaves reverberate still. The veteran biographer Evan Thomas now enters the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Library of Congress World War II Companion

    Edited by David M. Kennedy ...
    An indispensable reference on World War II produced by the Library of Congress and edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David M. Kennedy. With hundreds of illustrations and quotations from contemporary documents, this will be the most authoritative popular reference on World War II.The noted historian John Keegan called World War II "the largest single event in human history." More than ... Read more

    $33.99 USD