Iain MacGregor

'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative' - James Holland 'The sheer brutal intimacy of his descriptions of the fighting are extraordinary' - Frederick Taylor 'A wonderful and important and timely book' - Alexander Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of The Bedford Boys and First...

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first atomic bomb. Built in the US by the top-secret Manhattan Project and delivered by a B-29 Superfortress, a revolutionary long-range bomber, the weapon destroyed large swaths of the city, instantly killing tens of thousands. The world would never be the same...

With a foreword by William Boyd 'Gripping and revelatory' — Tom Holland 'As convoluted and deadly as the plot of a novel by John le Carre, but all too real' — Daily Mail, Must Reads ‘With a gripping narrative and vivid interviews with those on all sides whose lives were directly affected by that grim symbol of the East-West divide...

'An extraordinary and utterly absorbing blend of the historical, the scientific and the human. MacGregor has made us see a terrible event with different eyes. A real achievement' — Patrick Bishop We Have Ways Podcast 'Books of the Year' Selection The Critic Military Books of the Year At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima...