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Hiroshima in history and memory / edited by Michael J. Hogan.
Van Pelt Library D767.25.H6 H6456 1996
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LIBRA D767.25.H6 H6456 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atomic bomb victims.
- Military policy.
- Decision making.
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Hiroshima-shi.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
- United States--Military policy--Decision making.
- Atomic bomb victims--Japan.
- Japan.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- In this timely collection of essays, prominent historians survey the Hiroshima story from the American decision to drop the first atomic bomb to the recent controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit in Washington, D.C. The essays analyze the American resort to atomic warfare in 1945 and show how that decision resonates in American and Japanese memory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521562066
- 0521566827
- OCLC:
- 33358893
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