About the Book
"Greg Mitchell is the best kind of historian, a true storyteller." -Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer"
In this new, updated and expanded edition of a book which has gained national attention, award-winning author Greg Mitchell probes a turning point in U.S. history: the suppression of film footage, for decades, shot by a U.S. Army unit in Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- with staggering consequences even today.
This is a detective story, and one of the last untold stories of World War II, and it has far-reaching impact.
Mitchell, co-author of the classic "Hiroshima in America" and ten other books, including the best-selling "The Tunnels," now reveals the full story, in this expanded 2020 edition, based on vast new research, from the Truman Library to Nagasaki. Along the way the book tells the story of our "nuclear entrapment" -- from Hiroshima to Fukushima.
David Friend of Vanity Fair calls it "a new work of revelatory scholarship and insight by Greg Mitchell that will speak to all of those concerned about the lessons of the nuclear age."
"Atomic Cover-up" is also now available in an e-book edition here at Amazon, also in this expanded 2020 edition for for the 75th anniversary of the invention and use of the bomb against Japan.
How did this cover-up happen? Why? And what did the two military officers, Daniel McGovern and Herbert Sussan, try to do about it, for decades? "Atomic Cover-up" answers all of these questions in a quick-paced but often surprising narrative.
You can watch a trailer for the book, including some of the suppressed footage, here: http: //bit.ly/r0AlZL
Mitchell's classic Random House book "The Campaign of the Century" won the Goldsmith Book Prize and has just been published for the first time as an e-book.
Robert Jay Lifton, author of "Death in Life" (winner of the National Book Award) and numerous other acclaimed books, writes: "Greg Mitchell has been a leading chronicler for many years of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and American behavior toward them. Now he has written the first book devoted to the suppression of historic film footage shot by Japanese and Americans in the atomic cities in 1945 and 1946. He makes use of key interviews and documents to record an extremely important part of atomic bomb history that deserves far more attention today."
About the Author: Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books, including "The Campaign of the Century," winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize, and "Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady." He has written two books with Robert Jay Lifton, "Hiroshima in America" and "Who Owns Death?" Recently he has written "Hollywood Bomb," "The Age of WikiLeaks," "Bradley Manning," "So Wrong for So Long," "Journeys With Beethoven" and "Vonnegut and Me." He is the former editor of Nuclear Times and Editor & Publisher magazines.
