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  • Nuclear War

    A Scenario

    by Annie Jacobsen ...
    The INSTANT New York Times bestsellerInstant Los Angeles Times **bestsellerFinalist, Dayton Literary Peace PrizeOne of NPR's Books We LoveOne of Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Books of the YearShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize**“In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail…Terrif... ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • 廣島醫生：一部終戰前的真實日記（原爆八十週年紀念．臺灣首度出版）

    Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945

    by 蜂谷道彥 ...
    Translated by 姚怡平 ...
    Series series 一卷歷史
    【原爆八十週年紀念．臺灣首度出版】當人生全面崩解，理性與善意如何成為我們的庇護所？原子彈之父 奧本海默：「我一口氣讀完……這是一部樸實無華的記錄，充滿了仁慈、哀傷與非凡的勇氣。」◆出版七十年來從未絕版，反戰與和平教育的重要經典◆全球引用最廣、最具分量的原爆第一手紀實◆除了《安妮日記》，另一部不容忽視的二戰日記文學【特別收錄】美日關係史權威、普立茲獎得主 約翰．道爾(John W. Dower)深度導讀一九四五年八月六日，原子彈轟炸廣島，當時的廣島通訊醫院院長蜂谷道彥，親歷了城市瞬間成為廢墟、醫療資源匱乏、無數傷患湧入醫院的慘況。他既是重傷者，也實際投入救治行動。在本書中，他以日記形式，透過冷靜細膩的筆觸，忠實紀錄了爆炸當日及接下來五十六天的異常經歷。日記中不僅詳述原子彈帶來的身心創傷和社會動盪，也捕捉到人的堅韌、奉獻與勇氣，反思生存的意義與道德困境。他見證貪汙、搶劫、體制崩潰 ... Read more

    $9.31 USD

  • Three Days in January

    Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission

    by Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney ...
    Series Book 3 - Three Days Series
    The blockbuster #1 national bestsellerBret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive Editor of Special Report with Bret Baier, illuminates the extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike’s last days in power.“Magnificently rendered. … Destined to take its place as not only one of the masterworks on ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • 核戰末日：我們與世界毀滅的距離（電影暖身版）

    Nuclear War: A Scenario

    by 安妮．雅各布森, Annie Jacobsen, 鄭煥昇 ...
    ★ 影視版權由《沙丘》導演丹尼．維勒納夫、傳奇影業重金取得★ 亞馬遜評選年度最佳書籍，近5星滿分好評：驚恐，但必讀！★ 上市首週橫掃各大暢銷榜：《紐約時報》、《洛杉磯時報》、《星期日泰晤士報》、亞馬遜總榜★「執行長日記」podcast訪談，三個月逾600萬觀看人次本書揭露的訊息，直逼大眾「知的權力」的合法邊緣。普立茲獎決選記者訪談50餘位核戰關鍵人物，刻劃最接近真實的末日場景。「本書應是現代人的基本讀物，那些把人類存滅握在手中的政治人物與決策者，更應讀懂本書傳達的訊息。」──《富比士》▎一場警世的寓言戰爭，透視核武的現狀與政策，我們如何在壯大自己的同時，削弱了人類與末日的界線 ▎當北韓朝美國五角大廈發射了第一顆核彈，世界上大部分的文明就注定在72分鐘內毀滅，近六成的生靈將被盡數抹除。本書的唯一起始假設，便是北韓開了「第一槍」，接下來發生的... ... Read more

    $12.41 USD

  • Nagasaki

    The Last Witnesses

    by M. G. Sheftall ...
    Series Book 2 - Embers
    The second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War.On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. Then, just three days later, when Japan showed no sign of surrender, ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • Three Days in Moscow

    Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

    by Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney ...
    Series Book 7 - Three Days Series
    "An instant classic, if not the finest book to date on Ronald Reagan." — Jay WinikPresident Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier.Moscow, 1988: 1,000 miles behind the Iron Curtain, Ronald Reagan stood for freedom and confronted the Soviet empire.In his acclaimed ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • Every Home a Fortress

    Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter

    by Thomas Bishop ...
    Series series Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
    In Every Home a Fortress, Thomas Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity—the fallout shelter father, who, with spade in hand and the canned goods he has amassed, sought to save his family from atomic warfare. Putting policy documents and presidential addresses into conversation with previously unmined personal letters, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Hiroshima

    The Last Witnesses

    by M. G. Sheftall ...
    Series Book 1 - Embers
    **One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience**In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of hibakusha—the Japanese word for ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Broken Arrow

    How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb

    by Jim Winchester ...
    Series series Casemate Illustrated
    This " unnerving exposé" of a lost American nuclear bomb "is a valuable contribution to the history of the navy, the cold war, and nuclear weapons" ( Booklist ).On December 5th, 1965, the USS Ticonderoga was on its way from Vietnam to Japan, practicing nuclear combat procedures along the way. A young pilot from Ohio strapped into an A-4 Skyhawk bomber for a routine simulated mission. But after ... Read more

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  • Arsenals of Folly

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, ... Read more

    $9.19 USD

  • Outlaw Platoon

    Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

    by Sean Parnell, John Bruning ...
    Acclaimed for its vivid, poignant, and honest recreation of sixteen brutal months of nearly continuous battle in the deadly Hindu Kesh, Outlaw Platoon is a Band of Brothers or We Were Soldiers Once and Young for the early 21st century—a riveting, action-packed, highly emotional war memoir and true story of enormous sacrifice and bravery.At twenty-four years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • How to Lose a Battle

    Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders

    by Bill Fawcett ...
    Series Book 3 - How to Lose Series
    A remarkable compendium of the worst militarydecisions and the men who made themThe annals of history are littered with horribly bad military leaders. These combat incompetents found amazing ways to ensure their army's defeat. Whether it was a lack of proper planning, miscalculation, ego, bad luck, or just plain stupidity, certain wartime stratagems should never have left the drawing board. ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • Hiroshima

    by John Hersey ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through the memories of the survivors of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city."The perspective [Hiroshima] ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • Now It Can Be Told

    The Story of the Manhattan Project

    by Leslie M. Groves ...
    A first-person account of the Manhattan Project by the general who hired, and worked alongside, Robert Oppenheimer.General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name the Manhattan Project. As the ranking military officer in charge of marshaling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • La guerra. È in gioco la nostra vita

    by Manlio Dinucci ...
    La guerra avanza, ma non è quella che il mainstream politico-mediatico fa apparire ai nostri occhi. Per capirlo non si può restare al fermoimmagine di ciò che accade in Ucraina. Si deve guardare il docufilm degli eventi che, dalla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale ad oggi, hanno portato all'attuale situazione. Cruciale è il momento in cui, finita la Guerra fredda con la disgregazione dell'URSS, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The World of the Cold War

    1945-1991

    by Vladislav Zubok ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'Monumental and highly readable... by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok brings a prescient and fresh perspective' Financial TimesA sweeping, original history of the Cold War, from an acclaimed historian of the USSRWhy did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Able Archer 83

    The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War

    Edited by Nate Jones ...
    "An invaluable resource on one of the most dangerous moments of the Cold War . . . If you want to learn from history, this is the place to start." —David E. Hoffman, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorIn November 1983, Soviet nuclear forces went on high alert. After months nervously watching increasingly assertive NATO military posturing, Soviet intelligence agencies in Western Europe received flash ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fact or Fission?

    the truth about Australia’s nuclear ambitions

    by Richard Broinowski ...
    An updated and authoritative account of Australia’s involvement with nuclear power, including the AUKUS nuclear submarine pact.Based on previously classified files and interviews with some of Australia’s prominent politicians and diplomats, the first edition of Fact or Fission? revealed that the nation’s nuclear policies had a chequered history. We sold, and continue to sell, uranium abroad, but ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Robert F. Kennedy ...
    "A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history."—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • One Soldier's Story

    A Memoir

    by Bob Dole ...
    "A poignant and inspiring memoir. . . . Dole's odyssey of courage and determination can be a guideline to us all."— Philadelphia InquirerIn his own words, Bob Dole tells his legendary World War II story—a personal odyssey of tremendous courage, sacrifice, and faithIn One Soldier's Story, Dole recites the moving, inspirational story of his harrowing experience in World War II, and how he overcame ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Atomic Times: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground

    by Michael Harris ...
    Catch-22 with radiation.Area 51 meets Dr. Strangelove.Except it really happened.THE ATOMIC TIMES is the absolutely insane, incredibly f*cked-up, but true, eyewitness story of what happened in 1956 on a tiny island in the South Pacific when over 1600 young soldiers (including me) were turned into atomic guinea pigs by the US Army.We... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Empire of Ashes

    Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War

    by James M. Scott ...
    From the acclaimed Pacific War historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, the harrowing story of America’s bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the dramatic struggle to end World War II.At 9:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, an American bomber pierced the skies over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The single bomb it dropped unleashed an atomic hurricane that toppled homes, vaporized birds in flight, and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • One Minute to Midnight

    by Michael Dobbs ...
    In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In thishour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon.Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Dead Hand (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

    by David Hoffman ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified ... Read more

    $6.29 USD