A potent reminder of the extreme human costs that were wrought by the first atomic weapon employed during warfare ... By profiling some key players, MacGregor pulls readers into their personal stories with visually enticing description and lively dialogue ... The most powerful sections of the book come toward the end, when MacGregor describes the ghastly aftermath of the bombing.
By going deeper into the personal details and reminiscences of a generation that is all but lost to us now,...Mr. MacGregor ha[s] made the story more human ... Mr. MacGregor gives us a full account of the making of the B-29 ... Although unaccountably he leaves out the crucial role of William Knudsen ... What comes through from The Hiroshima Men is how inexorable the Air Force machinery was in achieving the final result ... Mr. MacGregor gives us an unexpected hero in the person of John Hersey.
A well-researched study of how warfare was forever changed ... MacGregor deftly chronicles the key figures involved in U.S. government and the military who helped end a war while ushering in the tense nuclear age that followed it.
