Rhodes, Richard

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The making of the atomic bomb

2012
Describes in human, political, and scientific detail the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the power of the atom, to the first bombs dropped on Japan.
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The Ozarks

Text and illustrations describe the geography, points of interest, wildlife and vegetation of the wilderness area of the Ozark Mountains in Missouri and Arkansas.

The Ozarks

Arsenals of Folly

The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
2007

Hell and good company

the Spanish Civil War and the world it made
2015
Looks at the Spanish Civil War through those who witnessed it including reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses.

How to write

advice and reflections
1995
Advice from a Pulitzer Prize winning author offering guidelines to writers for finding ideas, researching topics, motivation, and getting published.

Why they kill

the discoveries of a maverick criminologist
2000
Explores the findings of criminologist Dr. Lonnie Athens on why some people are prone to violent behavior.

Nuclear renewal

common sense about energy
1993

Masters of death

the SS-Einsatzgruppen and the invention of the Holocaust
2002
Explores the role the Einsatzgruppen, the professional killing squads deployed in Poland and the Soviet Union early in World War II, played in the Holocaust.

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