Enola Gay, Max MorganWitts
Enola Gay, Max MorganWitts
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Enola Gay
Mission to Hiroshima

Author: Max Morgan-Witts, Gordon Thomas

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 10 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/04/2020


Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling coauthors comes a "fascinating . . . unrivaled" history of the B-29 and its fateful mission to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (New York Times Book Review).

Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. From diplomatic moves behind the scenes to Japanese actions and the US Army Air Force's call to action, no detail is left untold.

Touching on the early days of the Manhattan Project and the first inkling of an atomic bomb, investigative journalist Gordon Thomas and his writing partner Max Morgan-Witts, take WWII enthusiasts through the training of the crew of the Enola Gay and the challenges faced by pilot Paul Tibbets.

A must-listen book that offers "minute-by-minute coverage of the critical periods" surrounding the mission, Enola Gay finally separates myth and reality from the planning of the flight to the moment over Hiroshima when the atomic age was born (Library Journal).

About Max Morgan-Witts

Max Morgan-Witts is coauthor, with Gordon Thomas, of many books, including The Day the World Ended, Voyage of the Damned, and Guernica.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on January 06, 2014

The facts speak for themselves: I couldn't put this book down (when I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it) and when I got to the part where the bomb was dropped, my heart literally started beating faster and my mouth was dry. Not all the parts of the book were quite that intense of course (I......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on July 17, 2016

Lots of ironies and happenstance surrounded the delivery of the first atomic bomb. FDR backed the beginning of the Manhattan Project without the knowledge of Congress using money off the books. Max Tibbetts, a pilot with an impeccable record who had been the first to fly a B-17 on a bombing raid acr......more

Goodreads review by Chana on December 03, 2016

A well balanced and interesting book about the creation of the atomic bomb and the use of it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is a lot of information about the secrecy surrounding the creation of the bombs and the training of the pilots, the thoughts and actions of the people involved, and a look at......more

Goodreads review by Michael Gerald on May 14, 2020

With all the atrocities that Japan committed during the Second World War, it is galling for some Japanese lunatics to make Hiroshima as a shrine for peace. Kapal ng mga mukha! For the record, Japan was THE aggressor of that terrible war. And their atrocities are also for the record: Korea, Manchuria,......more