hiroshima (japan)

Interviews in America and Japan relate the experiences of the Hiroshima Maidens. Describes their memories of the blast, the extent of their disfigurement, and the effect of their plastic surgery performed in the United States.

Nineteen autobiographical accounts of women from the Hiroshima area who lost husbands in the nuclear attack.

Discusses the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan by telling the stories of the key Americans and Japanese in the drama.

Bibliography: p. 121-122. A volume of poetry based on the testimony of survivors of the Hiroshima bombing.

Profusely illustrated text recounts the events leading to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the capitulation of Japan in W.W. II.

Discusses the events and decisions that led to the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, particularly Truman's role as decision maker and initiator of the act.

Discusses the events leading to and following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, including scientific, historical, political, and cultural contexts.

Photographs and text record Hiroshima as it appears now and tells the story of some of the survivors.

"A new edition with a final chapter written forty years after the explosion." The story of six people who lived through the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945 in Hiroshima.