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Hiroshima Nagasaki

Hiroshima Nagasaki( )
Author: Ham, Paul
Read by: Meldrum, Robert
ISBN:978-1-74311-937-2
Publication Date:Sep 2012
Publisher:Bolinda Publishing Pty, Limited
Imprint:Bolinda Audio
Book Format:Audio disc
List Price:AUD $44.95
Book Description:

'Nobody is more disturbed,' said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, 'over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language [the Japanese] seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them. When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless...
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Book Details
Detailed Subjects: History / Asia / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.2 x 12.2 cm
Book Weight:0.073 Kilograms
Author Biography
Ham, Paul (Author)
Paul Ham is an Australian historian, journalist and author, He was born in Sydney, Australia in 1960. He earned his master's degree in economic history from the London School of Economics. He began working for the London Sunday Times in 1998 as their Australia correspondent.

He is the author of Kokoda (2004), Vietnam: The Australian War (2007), Hiroshima Nagasaki (2011), Sandakan: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches (2012), 1914: The Year the World Ended (2013), and Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth (2017). He won the Queensland Literary Award for Non-Fiction in 2014 for his work, 1914: The Year the World Ended. He also received the 2018 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction for Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth. His other work includes 1913, The Target Committee, and Honey, We Forgot the Kids (co-authored with psychotherapist Bernie Brown).

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