Titles in this Set:American Prometheus:
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Language : English
Paperback : 736 pages
ISBN-10 : 183895970X
ISBN-13 : 978-1838959708
Dimensions : 12.9 x 4.5 x 19.8 cm
Abyss:
Publisher : William Collins
Language : English
Paperback : 576 pages
ISBN-10 : 0008365032
ISBN-13 : 978-0008365035
Dimensions : 12.9 x 3.6 x 19.8 cm
Description:
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer:
Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.
Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962:
Max Hastings’s graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev’s Russia and Kennedy’s America; then to describe the nail-biting Thirteen Days in which Armageddon beckoned.