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Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space by Stephen Walker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballis ...Show more
Shockwave - Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was a moment that stilled and forever changed the world. On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb - dubbed 'Little Boy' by its creators - was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On that day, a firestorm of previously unima ...Show more
Shockwave - The Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker
$27.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
August 6th, 1945, 9.15 a.m. Six miles above Hiroshima, the bombardier of the Enola Gay released an atomic bomb into the freezing skies. Seconds later, the city was obliterated in a single, monumental blast of fire. The destruction was immediate and catastrophic, as if a small sun had suddenly explo ...Show more
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