Book: ‘The Devil Reached Toward the Sky,’ Garrett M. Graff

‘The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb,’ by Garrett M. Graff. (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

The story of the Atomic Age’s start is a fascinating one about the power of invention and a chilling one about its consequences. In The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb , Garrett M. Graff skillfully tells both.

The power of Graff’s oral history is the diversity of voices he relies upon in crafting a thorough history of the atomic bomb’s inception, creation and use during World War II.

He creates a comprehensive account of what seems like a well-told piece of history by including voices that have been either little-heard or missed altogether in the six decades since th