hiroshima-shi (japan)

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.

Looks at the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, objectively recounting both sides of the events.

Discusses the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the U.S. during World War II; examines how the bomb was developed and the reasons why the U.S. decided to use the weapon; and looks at other uses of atomic power.

An account of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, from the viewpoint of the people who lived through it.

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.

Discuses the creation of the atomic bomb in the U.S., traces events that led to its use against Japan during World War II, and examines the aftermath of the bombing.

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.