Total War: What It Is, How It Got That Way

by Thomas Powers, Ruthven Tremain, Thomas Power

"Now we are in for trouble," responded Robert Oppenheimer, director of the atom-bomb project during WW2, when he was asked to help decide what to do with the bomb. The bomb worked fine. But the question of what to do with the bomb -- or what we will do to ourselves with the bomb -- haunts us still. In this volume, statements from the pens and mouths of men who thought war and made war paint in, stroke by stroke, the great question that looms behind...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688069193
• ISBN13: 9780688069193
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Great War Quotes

A must have collection of famous individuals speaking their minds on the subject of war. Also could act as a great teaching tool for younger readers who wish to gain insights into this subject.