bombardment, 1945

A retelling of a mother's account of what happened to her family during the "Flash" that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

Junko's story, with photographic illustrations, of her childhood in Hiroshima, growing up in a society at war, witnessing the first nuclear attack when her known world was hideously destroyed by an atomic bomb, and finding solace in the survival of her family.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.