History Wars (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: n/a
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: History
- Principal Characters: Martin Harwit, Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., John T. Correll, Harry S Truman, I. Michael Heyman, Michael Neufeld, William M. Detweiler, Richard Kohn
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History
- Subjects: Protests or demonstrations, World War II, Bombs, Airplanes or jets, Atomic bomb, Japan or Japanese people, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Pacifism
Suddenly, in the fall of 1993, a major conflict erupted between ambitious historians and American veterans who had actually participated in the events the historians sought to scrutinize. As recounted in a series of eight related articles that compose History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past, the historians had been working on a controversial exhibit featuring the display of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Under the leadership of its forceful new...
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