Hiroshima Nagasaki
by Paul Ham | 
Japan at War
by Haruko Taya Cook | 
The Rising Sun
by John Toland | 
Embracing Defeat
by John W. Dower |
Nagasaki
by Susan Southard | 
Midnight in Broad Daylight
by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto | 
Killing the Rising Sun
by Bill O'Reilly | 
Japan 1941
by Eri Hotta | 
Enola Gay
by Gordon Thomas | 
The Fall of Japan
by William Craig | 
The Rape of Nanking
by Iris Chang | 
Human Smoke
by Nicholson Baker |
A Short History of World War II
by James L. Stokesbury |
Soldiers of the Sun
by Meirion Harries |
The Emperor's Codes
by Michael Smith | 
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides | 
Return of a King
by William Dalrymple | 
At Dawn We Slept
by Gordon W. Prange | 
The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman | 
Schindler's Ark
by Thomas Keneally |
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times).