000			01405cam a22002298i 4500
020			_a9781524792657 _c$210
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC
082	0	0	_a940.54/2521954
100	1		_aBrallier, Jess M.
245	1	0	_aWhat was the bombing of Hiroshima? _cby Jess M. Brallier ; illustrated by Tim Foley
260			_aNew York _bPenguin Workshop _c2020
300			_a106 p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates _bill.
490	0		_aWhat was
490	0		_aWho HQ Book
500			_aLexile : 870L
520			_a"By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the fighting continued between American forces and the Japanese, who were losing but determined to fight till the bitter end. And so it fell to a new president--Harry S. Truman--to make the fateful decision to drop two atomic bombs--one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki--and bring the war to rapid close. Now, even seventy years later, can anyone know if this was the right choice? In a thoughtful account of these history-changing events, Jess Brallier explains the leadup to the bombing, what the terrible results of it were, and how the threat of atomic war has colored world events since"--
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zJapan _zHiroshima-shi _vJuvenile literature
650		0	_aAtomic bomb _vJuvenile literature
651		0	_aHiroshima-shi (Japan) _xHistory _yBombardment, 1945 _vJuvenile literature
700	1		_aFoley, Tim
942			_cBK
999			_c16178 _d16178