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Shockwave Countdown to Hiroshima

Walker, Stephen
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780008372552
Publisert
2020-07-23
Utgiver
Vendor
William Collins
Vekt
300 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Walker, Stephen

Om bidragsyterne

Stephen Walker was born in London. He has a BA in History from Oxford and an MA in the History of Science from Harvard. His previous book was Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima, a New York Times bestseller. As well as being a writer he is also an award-winning documentary director. His films have won an Emmy, a BAFTA and the Prix d’Or, Europe’s most prestigious documentary award. Young@Heart, a film about an American chorus of seniors, won the Los Angeles Film Festival Audience Award in 2007 and was subsequently released to critical acclaim in cinemas across the US by Fox Searchlight.

Shockwave Countdown to Hiroshima

Walker, Stephen
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
Walker, Stephen
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
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<p>‘Shockwave is a stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read.’ <em>Irish Times</em></p> <p>‘This is an utterly gripping work of micro-history … [Walker] proves himself a master of dramatic tension.’<br /><em><strong>Sunday Express</strong></em></p> <p>‘The excitement of the time is wonderfully captured in Walker’s <em>Shockwave</em>. Brilliant.’<br /><em><strong>Financial Times</strong></em></p> <p>‘Devastating.’<br /><em><strong>Daily Mail</strong></em></p> <p>‘Timely and harrowing …succeeds in creating a dramatized documentary of the moment that changed history.’<br /><em><strong>Scotland on Sunday </strong></em></p> <p>‘A roller-coaster ride through the memories of American servicemen, Japanese soldiers and civilians…invites comparison with John Hersey’s still-classic <em>Hiroshima</em>.’<br /><em><strong>Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)</strong></em></p> <p>‘Superb …Walker writes with a sense of urgency and high drama.’<br /><em><strong>Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)</strong></em></p> <p>‘Uniquely readable, immediate and human …an exceptionally taut and revealing chronicle.’<br /><em><strong>Booklist (Starred Review) </strong></em></p> <p>‘Dramatic …an important page-turner.’<br /><em><strong>Entertainment Weekly</strong></em></p> <p>‘Remarkable. I have been waiting for this book for sixty years.’<br /><strong>Gitta Sereny, author of <em>Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth</em></strong></p> <p>‘Electrifying …The tension and concentration of Walker’s thriller-like prose elicits a visceral response.’ <em>Chicago Tribune</em></p>

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read’ At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In an instant, the temperature at its core rose to millions of degrees. Sixty-thousand buildings were obliterated. A third of the city’s population died, by heat, by the blast, and by a terrible new weapon in the history of warfare: radiation. In this riveting account, Stephen Walker follows the stories of real people in the extraordinary weeks leading up to the explosion and in its aftermath. From the atomic engineer who armed the bomb in mid-air to the Japanese doctors treating thousands of burnt bodies on the ground. From the flight crews and scientists to world leaders and civilian victims. With intimate testimony and remarkable stories, this is the startling narrative behind the dawn of the atomic age.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read’
‘Shockwave is a stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read.’ Irish Times ‘This is an utterly gripping work of micro-history … [Walker] proves himself a master of dramatic tension.’Sunday Express ‘The excitement of the time is wonderfully captured in Walker’s Shockwave. Brilliant.’Financial Times ‘Devastating.’Daily Mail ‘Timely and harrowing …succeeds in creating a dramatized documentary of the moment that changed history.’Scotland on Sunday ‘A roller-coaster ride through the memories of American servicemen, Japanese soldiers and civilians…invites comparison with John Hersey’s still-classic Hiroshima.’Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) ‘Superb …Walker writes with a sense of urgency and high drama.’Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) ‘Uniquely readable, immediate and human …an exceptionally taut and revealing chronicle.’Booklist (Starred Review) ‘Dramatic …an important page-turner.’Entertainment Weekly ‘Remarkable. I have been waiting for this book for sixty years.’Gitta Sereny, author of Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth ‘Electrifying …The tension and concentration of Walker’s thriller-like prose elicits a visceral response.’ Chicago Tribune
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• PUBLISH FOR 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIROSHIMA BOMBING. • BUILD ON SUCCESS OF FIRST EDITION. NYT bestseller. Winner of the 2006 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction. 50,000 copies printed on first run. • IN DEVELOPMENT WITH WORKING TITLE FILMS as a feature film with screenplay by Tom Stoppard and director Cary Fukunaga. • MODERN COVER TO ECHO SERHII PLOKHY’S CHERNOBYL • BRILLIANTLY REVIEWED (more to come from research into British press coverage) Competition: Hiroshima; Hiroshima Nagasaki;Chernobyl;Atomic;Making of the Atomic Bomb;Dark Sun;First Light;Seizing the Enigma;SAS;Midnight in Chernobyl. John Hersey;Paul Ham;Andrew Langley;Serhii Plokhy;Jim Baggott;Richard Rhodes;Geoffrey Wellum;John Nichol;Giles Milton;Max Hastings;James Holland;Adam Higginbotham
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<p>‘Shockwave is a stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read.’ <em>Irish Times</em></p> <p>‘This is an utterly gripping work of micro-history … [Walker] proves himself a master of dramatic tension.’<br /><em><strong>Sunday Express</strong></em></p> <p>‘The excitement of the time is wonderfully captured in Walker’s <em>Shockwave</em>. Brilliant.’<br /><em><strong>Financial Times</strong></em></p> <p>‘Devastating.’<br /><em><strong>Daily Mail</strong></em></p> <p>‘Timely and harrowing …succeeds in creating a dramatized documentary of the moment that changed history.’<br /><em><strong>Scotland on Sunday </strong></em></p> <p>‘A roller-coaster ride through the memories of American servicemen, Japanese soldiers and civilians…invites comparison with John Hersey’s still-classic <em>Hiroshima</em>.’<br /><em><strong>Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)</strong></em></p> <p>‘Superb …Walker writes with a sense of urgency and high drama.’<br /><em><strong>Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)</strong></em></p> <p>‘Uniquely readable, immediate and human …an exceptionally taut and revealing chronicle.’<br /><em><strong>Booklist (Starred Review) </strong></em></p> <p>‘Dramatic …an important page-turner.’<br /><em><strong>Entertainment Weekly</strong></em></p> <p>‘Remarkable. I have been waiting for this book for sixty years.’<br /><strong>Gitta Sereny, author of <em>Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth</em></strong></p> <p>‘Electrifying …The tension and concentration of Walker’s thriller-like prose elicits a visceral response.’ <em>Chicago Tribune</em></p>

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read’ At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In an instant, the temperature at its core rose to millions of degrees. Sixty-thousand buildings were obliterated. A third of the city’s population died, by heat, by the blast, and by a terrible new weapon in the history of warfare: radiation. In this riveting account, Stephen Walker follows the stories of real people in the extraordinary weeks leading up to the explosion and in its aftermath. From the atomic engineer who armed the bomb in mid-air to the Japanese doctors treating thousands of burnt bodies on the ground. From the flight crews and scientists to world leaders and civilian victims. With intimate testimony and remarkable stories, this is the startling narrative behind the dawn of the atomic age.
Les mer
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read’
‘Shockwave is a stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read.’ Irish Times ‘This is an utterly gripping work of micro-history … [Walker] proves himself a master of dramatic tension.’Sunday Express ‘The excitement of the time is wonderfully captured in Walker’s Shockwave. Brilliant.’Financial Times ‘Devastating.’Daily Mail ‘Timely and harrowing …succeeds in creating a dramatized documentary of the moment that changed history.’Scotland on Sunday ‘A roller-coaster ride through the memories of American servicemen, Japanese soldiers and civilians…invites comparison with John Hersey’s still-classic Hiroshima.’Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) ‘Superb …Walker writes with a sense of urgency and high drama.’Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) ‘Uniquely readable, immediate and human …an exceptionally taut and revealing chronicle.’Booklist (Starred Review) ‘Dramatic …an important page-turner.’Entertainment Weekly ‘Remarkable. I have been waiting for this book for sixty years.’Gitta Sereny, author of Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth ‘Electrifying …The tension and concentration of Walker’s thriller-like prose elicits a visceral response.’ Chicago Tribune
Les mer
• PUBLISH FOR 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIROSHIMA BOMBING. • BUILD ON SUCCESS OF FIRST EDITION. NYT bestseller. Winner of the 2006 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction. 50,000 copies printed on first run. • IN DEVELOPMENT WITH WORKING TITLE FILMS as a feature film with screenplay by Tom Stoppard and director Cary Fukunaga. • MODERN COVER TO ECHO SERHII PLOKHY’S CHERNOBYL • BRILLIANTLY REVIEWED (more to come from research into British press coverage) Competition: Hiroshima; Hiroshima Nagasaki;Chernobyl;Atomic;Making of the Atomic Bomb;Dark Sun;First Light;Seizing the Enigma;SAS;Midnight in Chernobyl. John Hersey;Paul Ham;Andrew Langley;Serhii Plokhy;Jim Baggott;Richard Rhodes;Geoffrey Wellum;John Nichol;Giles Milton;Max Hastings;James Holland;Adam Higginbotham
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780008372552
Publisert
2020-07-23
Utgiver
Vendor
William Collins
Vekt
300 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Walker, Stephen

Om bidragsyterne

Stephen Walker was born in London. He has a BA in History from Oxford and an MA in the History of Science from Harvard. His previous book was Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima, a New York Times bestseller. As well as being a writer he is also an award-winning documentary director. His films have won an Emmy, a BAFTA and the Prix d’Or, Europe’s most prestigious documentary award. Young@Heart, a film about an American chorus of seniors, won the Los Angeles Film Festival Audience Award in 2007 and was subsequently released to critical acclaim in cinemas across the US by Fox Searchlight.

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