Five Days in August : How World War II Became a Nuclear War /
Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb's revolutionary strategic potential, that the...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- ch. 1. Endings
- ch. 2. Shock
- ch. 3. Special
- ch. 4. Miracle
- ch. 5. Papacy
- ch. 6. Revolution
- ch. 7. Beginnings
- Coda : On the scholarly literature
- Abbreviations used in notes
- Notes
- Index.