The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

by Garrett Graff

If you love hearing people’s own accounts of what happened during big historical events, you’ll love the work of Garrett Graff. In The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, he puts together the story of the Manhattan Project and the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki using 450+ first-person accounts. We hear from scientists, their wives, soldiers, generals, and those who survived the bombings. The audiobook comes highly recommended by AudioFile Magazine.