Atomic Bomb Island is a triumph. It is based on extremely deep research that provides a new and vivid account of the servicemen and scientists who prepared and delivered of the atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki from Tinian. It is packed with details and important insights about this vital, but little understood component of the Manhattan Project. The narrative makes many individual participants come to life and devolves into some highly fraught clashes among them that had material consequences in the course of history.

– Richard Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire

Author Don Farrell seems to have been destined to compose this well-researched, well-written history of the creation and use of the world’s first atomic bombs, a story that ultimately peaks on Tinian Island of the Marianas archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Not only has Farrell authored previous books and articles about the Mariana Islands, but also he has lived on those islands for more than forty years. Farrell successfully combines comprehensive research with a compelling, accurate, and readable narrative that should reward any reader, from amateur military history buffs to the experts.

– Darrell Dvorak, contributor to Air Power History magazine