The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
by Garrett Graff
🎧 Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award for a truly exceptional audiobook
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.Â
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“This oral history of the Manhattan Project and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dramatically made aural, thanks to the talents of some 30 narrators, plus the author. This audiobook features snippets of first-person accounts of those who lived the history. The individuals included number more than 450, and most of the narrators portray many characters, with Edoardo Ballerini narrating the connective tissue that binds them all together. Listeners may be so engrossed they don’t think of the production’s tremendous complexity—if they do, they’ll find it all the more astounding.” Read more...
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