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Name: Wallace, Chris - Countdown 1945 - Wallace, Chris
Format: epub
Size: 21.88 MB

Title: Wallace, Chris - Countdown 1945
Author: Wallace, Chris
Language: English
Year: 2024
Subjects: History, Politics, Nonfiction
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780593852194
Total pages: N/A

From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the American attack on Hiroshima.
April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world's first atomic bomb, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continents-and confront one of the most consequential decisions in history. Countdown 1945 tells the gripping true story of the turbulent days, weeks, and months to follow, leading up to August 6, 1945, when Truman gives the order to drop the bomb on Hiroshima.

In Countdown 1945, Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, takes readers inside the minds of...