hiroshima-shi (japan)

Describes events before, during, and after the dropping of the atomic bombs during World War II from the perspectives of a Manhattan Project scientist, a witness in Hiroshima, and an aide to the U.S. Secretary of War. Includes photographs, a glossary, and further resources.

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.

Offers an account of the dropping of the atomic bombs during World War II.

Keiji Nakazawa draws on his own experiences as a young boy in Japan to recount the struggles of Gen Nakaoka as he tries to rebuild his life, reconnect with his friends, and cope with the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

"In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War"--Back cover.

A look at the causes and global effects of the 1945 atomic bombardment of two Japanese cities, which led to the end of World War II but set the stage for hostilities in the Cold War era.

An introduction to the development and use of the atomic bombs that were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945; and a discussion of why Truman felt the bombs were necessary, arguments against their use, and the death and destruction caused by them.

"The Pacific follows the war against Japan from the raid on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945. It shows how Japan made remarkable initial gains in Asia and the Pacific, and how the United States and its allies plotted a thrust across the vast Pacific Ocean, based on aircraft carriers, air power, and amphibious landings on scattered islands. Eventually, the campaign brought Allied bombers within striking distance of Japan itself"--Back cover.

After months of seeking family members with the aunt she was visiting when Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, seven-year-old Hanako finally goes back to school and gets on with a life that leads, eventually, to her visiting Washington, D.C. and the church that provided them humanitarian aid. Based on first-hand accounts and interviews with survivors, and illustrated with paintings by Hiroshima children.

Japanese-Americans Sam and Keiko fall in love in California but Keiko's parents take her back to Japan and try to arrange a marriage for her though she is considered too Americanized. When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Sam is drafted by the U.S. Army and sent on a secret mission in which he finds himself torn between countries.