Eyewitness Hirosmima
Adrian Weale

Eyewitness Hiroshima, originally written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first combat use of the Atomic Bomb, charts the scientific and military background to the catastrophic bombing of Hiroshima on August Xth 1945, using the words of participants, witnesses and victims. Much used as a school text, ‘Eyewitness Hiroshima’ is easily accessible and well-written but also scrupulously scientifically accurate. August 2005 will see the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and it is certain that there will be enormous public interest in commemorating these terrible events: ‘Eyewitness Hiroshima’ is a highly readable history which offers considerable insight into the scientific background to the race for the bomb, the military difficulties in using it and the effect it had on the ground.