Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker

Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima

Stephen Walker

400 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative fast-paced
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A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world foreverOn a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb—dubbed Little Boy by its creators—was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city of Hiro...

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Moods

informative 85%
sad 57%
dark 28%
reflective 28%
adventurous 14%
challenging 14%
emotional 14%
tense 14%

Pace

medium 57%
slow 42%

Average rating

4.08

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