- Published: 30 September 2011
- ISBN: 9781446449615
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 416
The Bomb
A Life
- Published: 30 September 2011
- ISBN: 9781446449615
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 416
'Thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and irradiated by a wry sense of humour...[this] biography of the bomb is absolutely gripping...Our sensibilities on this score have gone to sleep: this outstanding book ought to wake them up again with a very loud bang.'
A C Grayling, Literary Review
'The gripping story of the invention and building of the bomb, spiced with wartime strategic manoeuvring, scientific intrigues and espionage, has never been better told.'
Sunday Telegraph
'A timely account of mankind's most awful invention, wryly wrapped as a biography...A clever cocktail of reportage, analysis and anecdote from the physics of the bomb's conception to the B-movies it inspired.'
The Times
'I have read many books about different aspects of this enormous subject, but none that brings the diverse pieces together so well, in such an absorbing and truly masterful way.'
Andrew Crumey, Scotland on Sunday
A page-turning biography of mankind's most terrifying creation. This disturbs, amuses, enlightens and, most importantly, makes you think twice
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