New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Eighty years ago this week, the US dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In his new book, acclaimed writer and historian of World War II, Iain MacGregor takes the reader back to the political and scientific events that led up to the fateful moment that wiped out thousands and scarred generations thereafter. The Hiroshima Men', by Iain MacGregor, Hachette, 448 pages, Rs.799.

This slim volume brings together a selection of the late Valmik Thapar's writings on tigers, the species he studied his whole life. Based on 50 years of observations and field notes, Thapar, who died in May, portrays the majestic creature through the scientific eyes of a conservationist who was al...