Countdown 1945

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Location	Collection	Call #
CLP - Brookline	Audiovisual Collection	(CD) D767.25.H6 W365 2020cx
Location	CLP - Brookline
Collection	Audiovisual Collection
Call Number	(CD) D767.25.H6 W365 2020cx
CLP - Homewood	Audiovisual Collection	(CD) D767.25.H6 W365 2020cx
Location	CLP - Homewood
Collection	Audiovisual Collection
Call Number	(CD) D767.25.H6 W365 2020cx
CLP - Squirrel Hill	Audiovisual Collection	(CD) D767.25.H6 W365 2020cx
Location	CLP - Squirrel Hill
Collection	Audiovisual Collection
Call Number	(CD) D767.25.H6 W365 2020cx
Northland Public Library	Audio Books	940.5425 W15 (COMPACT DISC)
Location	Northland Public Library
Collection	Audio Books
Call Number	940.5425 W15 (COMPACT DISC)
Western Allegheny Community Library	Audiovisual	CDBOOK 940.54 WAL
Location	Western Allegheny Community Library
Collection	Audiovisual
Call Number	CDBOOK 940.54 WAL
Whitehall Public Library	AudioBook Collection	ANFCD Wallace
Location	Whitehall Public Library
Collection	AudioBook Collection
Call Number	ANFCD Wallace

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Summary

Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "April 12, 1945, witnessed the loss of a wartime leader with the passing of President Franklin Roosevelt. In the latter stages of WWII, the Allied effort was gaining ground over Axis powers, but victory was far from assured. Vice President Harry Truman assumed the presidency with trepidation, especially when informed of the Manhattan Project: the vast country-spanning effort that employed hundreds of thousands of men and women and maintained the covert purpose of building an atomic bomb. The crucial players in this wartime machine were many, from scientists like Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the New Mexico arm of the project despite reservations about his past Communist Party affiliations, to colonel Paul Tibbets, who led the team that ultimately dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Journalist and FoxNews anchor Wallace charts the perilous and unsure course of the U.S. during the waning days of WWII, capturing the various personae who brought the bomb to fruition. With minute-by-minute suspense, Wallace masterfully writes of the trying time and the Allies' omnipresent doubt up to the very last second."
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "Fox News Sunday host Wallace debuts with a propulsive account of the final months of WWII leading up to atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Drawing on eyewitness accounts from Allied leaders, U.S. bomber pilots, and atomic scientists, Wallace opens with FDR's death in April 1945 and the swearing-in of President Truman, who immediately learns that the government has been developing "the most terrible weapon ever known in human history." Among those briefed about the plans, there was "a long, deeply felt debate" about the morality and efficacy of atomic weapons, Wallace writes. Separately, military leaders were planning to invade the Japanese home islands of Kyushu and Honshu in what would have been "the biggest military operation in U.S. history." Days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the Soviets invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria, threatening to permanently alter the map of Asia. Defiant silence from Japanese leaders led to the bombing of Nagasaki, a mission that "almost failed before it began." Wallace, with help from journalist Weiss, writes with verve and an eye for cinematic detail, though much of the story is well-known. Still, this accessible, evenhanded account serves as an entertaining introduction to one of the most momentous decisions in world history. (June)"
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Additional Information

Subjects	Atomic bomb -- United States -- History. World War, 1939-1945. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945. United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan. Audiobooks.
Publisher	New York City, NY :Simon & Schuster Audio,2020
Edition	Unabridged.
Other Titles	Countdown 1945 : Countdown nineteen forty-five
Contributors	Weiss, Mitch, author. Wallace, Chris, narrator. Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm), publisher.
Participants/Performers	Read by Chris Wallace.
Language	English
Notes	Unabridged. Title from disc label.
Description	7 audio discs (approximately 9 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN	9781797105444 1797105442
Other	Classic View