An Interactive History of the Manhattan Project (Enhanced Edition) Book

Includes video footage of the use of the atomic bomb and damage done to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.

Everyone has read about history's most important people and events in dense textbooks and classrooms, but words can only say so much. In Charles River Editors' Interactive History series, history comes to life in video and audio, allowing people to not only read history but truly experience it, through the eyes and ears of the people who were there.

During World War II, the free world literally hung in the balance, with the Axis and Allies engaging in warfare on an unprecedentedly violent scale. Tens of millions would die as the warring powers raced to create the best fighter planes, tanks, and guns. Eventually that race extended to bombs which carried enough power to destroy civilization itself.

While the war raged in Europe and the Pacific, a dream team of Nobel Laureates was working on a project so secretive that vice president Harry Truman didn't know of it when he took the presidency after FDR's death. This secretive project, The Manhattan Project, would ultimately yield the "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" bombs that released more than 100 Terajoules of energy at Hiroshima and Nagaski; changing the course of the War and the course of civilization.

An Interactive History of the Manhattan Project covers the beginning of atomic research prior to the Manhattan Project, the exodus of talented scientists fleeing Nazi Germany throughout Europe, and the history and results of the grand project that ushered in the Atomic Age. Along with video of the atomic bombs and their damage, as well as pictures of the important people and events associated with the Manhattan Project, you will learn about the dawn of the Atomic Age like you never have before.