Enola Gay: Mission to Hiroshima

Gordon Thomas · Max Morgan-Witts

Feb 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Joe Barrett

About this audiobook

From the New York Times bestselling coauthors comes a "fascinating . . . unrivaled" history of the B-29 and its fateful mission to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (New York Times Book Review). Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. From diplomatic moves behind the scenes to Japanese actions and the US Army Air Force's call to action, no detail is left untold. Touching on the early days of the Manhattan Project and the first inkling of an atomic bomb, investigative journalist Gordon Thomas and his writing partner Max Morgan-Witts, take WWII enthusiasts through the training of the crew of the Enola Gay and the challenges faced by pilot Paul Tibbets. A must-listen book that offers "minute-by-minute coverage of the critical periods" surrounding the mission, Enola Gay finally separates myth and reality from the planning of the flight to the moment over Hiroshima when the atomic age was born (Library Journal).

Ratings and reviews

This book glorifies violence. The US is disgusting. Oppenheimer is a mass murderer. So is Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt.

AAA

About the author

Gordon Thomas (1933-2017) was an investigative journalist and a bestselling author. He was the author of fifty-three books, including The Pope's Jews, Secret Wars, and Operation Exodus.

Max Morgan-Witts is coauthor, with Gordon Thomas, of many books, including The Day the World Ended, Voyage of the Damned, and Guernica.

Joe Barrett has been a working stage, screen, and recording booth actor since 1974 and an award-winning and eight-time Audie Award-nominated audiobook narrator since 1999. He also practiced law for five years-but don't hold that against him. Joe is married to actress Andrea Wright, and together they have four children.