IWM London | IWM In Conversation With: Iain MacGregor
Join Iain MacGregor, publisher, historian and author, as he launches his new book, The Hiroshima Men, a unique and ambitious narrative that seeks to explain the decade-long journey towards the first atomic attack in history on the eponymous Japanese city on 5 August, 1945.
It charts the race for nuclear technology before, during and after the Second World War, seen through the experiences of four key characters: General Leslie Groves, leader of the Manhattan Project. Colonel Paul Tibbetts II who would fly his B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, to drop the first atomic bomb ('Little Boy'). The war journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Hersey who would expose the devastation the bomb left on the city and produce one of the most important articles of the whole war for The New Yorker magazine one year after the attack.
Finally, MacGregor has unearthed a quite remarkable story that was lost in the archives; that of the mayor of Hiroshima, Senkichi Awaya. Alongside over eighty thousand of his fellow citizens, he would die instantly, but by searching through Japanese archives, his life and wartime experiences are woven into this incredible new story. Iain MacGregor's book The Hiroshima Men will be available to purchase at the event.
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Join Iain MacGregor, publisher, historian and author, as he launches his new book, The Hiroshima Men, a unique and ambitious narrative that seeks to explain the decade-long journey towards the first atomic attack in history on the eponymous Japanese city on 5 August, 1945.
It charts the race for nuclear technology before, during and after the Second World War, seen through the experiences of four key characters: General Leslie Groves, leader of the Manhattan Project. Colonel Paul Tibbetts II who would fly his B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, to drop the first atomic bomb ('Little Boy'). The war journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Hersey who would expose the devastation the bomb left on the city and produce one of the most important articles of the whole war for The New Yorker magazine one year after the attack.
Finally, MacGregor has unearthed a quite remarkable story that was lost in the archives; that of the mayor of Hiroshima, Senkichi Awaya. Alongside over eighty thousand of his fellow citizens, he would die instantly, but by searching through Japanese archives, his life and wartime experiences are woven into this incredible new story. Iain MacGregor's book The Hiroshima Men will be available to purchase at the event.
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