| Description |
xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Hiroshima in history and memory : an introduction / Michael J. Hogan -- Decision to use the bomb : a historiographical update / J. Samuel Walker -- Understanding the atomic bomb and the Japanese surrender : missed opportunities, little-known near disasters, and modern memory / Barton J. Bernstein -- Japan's delayed surrender : a reinterpretation / Herbert P. Bix -- Bombed : Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese memory / John W. Dower -- Exotic resonances : Hiroshima in American memory / Paul Boyer -- Quest for a peace culture : the a-bomb survivors' long struggle and the new movement for redressing foreign victims of Japan's war / Seiitsu Tachibana -- History, collective memory, and the decision to use the bomb / J. Samuel Walker -- Enola Gay controversy : history, memory, and the politics of presentation / Michael J. Hogan |
| Summary |
Contains essays in which historians examine the bombing of Japan by the United States in 1945, surveying the literature on the event, considering the deliberations that led to the decision to use the atomic bomb, and looking at how people in both countries have remembered Hiroshima since World War II |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
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Atomic bomb victims -- Japan.
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| SUBJECT |
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003738
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United States -- Military policy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379 -- Decision making.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005493
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Hogan, Michael J., 1943-
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| LC no. |
95045850 |
| ISBN |
0521562066 hardcover |
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0521566827 pb |
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