{"product_id":"atomic-cover-up-two-u-s-soldiers-hiroshima-nagasaki-and-the-greatest-movie-never-made","title":"Atomic Cover-up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima \u0026 Nagasaki, and The Greatest Movie Never Made","description":"\"Greg Mitchell is the best kind of historian, a true storyteller.\" -Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew 2023 Edition with Response to Christopher Nolan's \u003ci\u003eOppenheimer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this new, updated and expanded edition of a book which has gained national attention, award-winning author Greg Mitchell probes a turning point in U.S. history: the suppression of film footage, for decades, shot by an elite U.S. Army unit and a Japanese newsreel team in Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- with staggering consequences even today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a detective story, and one of the last untold stories of World War II, and it has far-reaching impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMitchell, author of the award-winning \"The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--and America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb\" and a dozen other books, including the best-selling \"The Tunnels,\" now reveals the full story, in this expanded 2023 edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Friend of Vanity Fair calls it \"a new work of revelatory scholarship and insight by Greg Mitchell that will speak to all of those concerned about the lessons of the nuclear age.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis expanded 2023 edition includes twelve pages of compelling new material related to Christopher Nolan's hit movie \u003ci\u003eOppenheimer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe buried film footage was the most important shot in the aftermath of the atomic bombings. How did this cover-up happen? Why? And what did the two military officers, Daniel McGovern and Herbert Sussan, try to do about it, for decades? \"Atomic Cover-up\" answers all of these questions in a quick-paced but often surprising narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Jay Lifton, author of \"Death in Life\" (winner of the National Book Award) and numerous other acclaimed books, writes: \"Greg Mitchell has been a leading chronicler for many years of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and American behavior toward them. Now he has written the first book devoted to the suppression of historic film footage shot by Japanese and Americans in the atomic cities in 1945 and 1946. He makes use of key interviews and documents to record an extremely important part of atomic bomb history that deserves far more attention today.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books, including \"The Campaign of the Century,\" winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize, and \"Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady.\" He has written two books with Robert Jay Lifton, \"Hiroshima in America\" and \"Who Owns Death?\" Recently he has written \"Hollywood Bomb,\" \"The Age of WikiLeaks,\" \"Bradley Manning,\" \"So Wrong for So Long,\" \"Journeys With Beethoven\" and \"Vonnegut and Me.\" He is the former editor of Nuclear Times and Editor \u0026amp; Publisher magazines.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50415629041938,"sku":"9781468127409","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8a3c2dba-1992-4a06-99f7-b8124e47ee1a.jpg?v=1729407160","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/atomic-cover-up-two-u-s-soldiers-hiroshima-nagasaki-and-the-greatest-movie-never-made","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}