The Bomb: A Life - Couverture souple

DeGroot, Gerard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0712677488 ISBN 13 : 9780712677486

Editeur : Pimlico, 2005

Synopsis

Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery. In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard DeGroot gives us the life story of the Bomb, from its birth in the turn-of-the-century physics labs of Europe to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the 1940s, from adolescence and early adulthood in Nagasaki and Bikini, Australia and Siberia to unsettling maturity in test sites and missile silos all over the globe. By turns horrific, awe-inspiring and blackly comic, "The Bomb" is never less than compelling.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in California, Gerard DeGroot is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. He has written eight books on aspects of twentieth-century war, and is a regular columnist and reviewer for Scotland on Sunday.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pimlico
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0712677488
• ISBN 13: 9780712677486
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
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• Personne responsable: non disponible