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Across Nuclear Warfare, World War II, Wars & Conflicts, and 20th Century — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Shockwave Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker.

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When Books Went to War The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II — Molly Guptill Manning

When Books Went to War The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II

Molly Guptill Manning

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Beautiful Jim Key The Lost History of a Horse and a Man Who Changed the World — Mim E. Rivas

Beautiful Jim Key The Lost History of a Horse and a Man Who Changed the World

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Manhattan Project The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians — Cynthia C. Kelly

The Manhattan Project The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians

Cynthia C. Kelly

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Arsenal of Democracy FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War — A. J. Baime

The Arsenal of Democracy FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Rise of the Fourth Reich The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America — Jim Marrs

The Rise of the Fourth Reich The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Sleeper Agent The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away — Ann Hagedorn

Sleeper Agent The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

A House in the Mountains The Women who Liberated Italy from Fascism — Caroline Moorehead

A House in the Mountains The Women who Liberated Italy from Fascism

Caroline Moorehead

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Why Truman Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan — Thomas B. Allen

Why Truman Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan

Thomas B. Allen

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Heroes Beneath the Waves True Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century — Mary Nida Smith

Heroes Beneath the Waves True Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century

Mary Nida Smith

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

One Soldier’s Story A Memoir — Robert J. Dole

One Soldier’s Story A Memoir

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Truman and the Bomb The Untold Story — D. M. Giangreco

Truman and the Bomb The Untold Story

D. M. Giangreco

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Countdown 1945 The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World — Chris Wallace

Countdown 1945 The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Making of the Atomic Bomb 25th Anniversary Edition — Richard Rhodes

The Making of the Atomic Bomb 25th Anniversary Edition

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Gathering Storm — Winston Churchill

The Gathering Storm

Winston Churchill

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Hiroshima — John Hersey

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Sudden Courage Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945 — Ronald C. Rosbottom

Sudden Courage Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945

Ronald C. Rosbottom

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War — Kevin Ruane

Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Admiral Canaris How Hitler’s Chief of Intelligence Betrayed the Nazis — David Alan Johnson

Admiral Canaris How Hitler’s Chief of Intelligence Betrayed the Nazis

David Alan Johnson

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Kristallnacht Prelude to Destruction — Martin Gilbert

Kristallnacht Prelude to Destruction

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Eyewitness to World War II Unforgettable Stories from History’s Greatest Conflict — Stephen Garrison Hyslop

Eyewitness to World War II Unforgettable Stories from History’s Greatest Conflict

Stephen Garrison Hyslop

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

One Bullet Away The Making of a Marine Officer — Nathaniel Fick

One Bullet Away The Making of a Marine Officer

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Manhattan Project at Hanford Site, The — Elizabeth Toomey

Manhattan Project at Hanford Site, The

Elizabeth Toomey

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Prometheus Bomb The Manhattan Project and Government in the Dark — Neil J. Sullivan

The Prometheus Bomb The Manhattan Project and Government in the Dark

Neil J. Sullivan

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • World War II • 20th Century

Nuclear Folly A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis — Serhii Plokhy

Nuclear Folly A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Themes: Nuclear Warfare • Wars & Conflicts • 20th Century

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Nuclear Warfare, World War II, Wars & Conflicts — the same threads that run through Shockwave Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker. Among the authors featured: Molly Guptill Manning, Mim E. Rivas, Cynthia C. Kelly, A. J. Baime, and others.

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