Screen LibraryNagasaki : life after nuclear war /
This book is an account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, told through the stories of those who survived. On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan's southernmost island. An es...
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Viking,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This book is an account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, told through the stories of those who survived. On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan's southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured. Published on the seventieth anniversary of the bombing, Nagasaki takes readers from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the first-hand experiences of five survivors, all of whom were teenagers at |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-372) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780670025626 0670025623 |
| Index Number: | D767 |
| CLC: | K313.9 |
| Call Number: | K313.9/S726 |
| Contents: | A note on Japanese names and terms -- Prologue -- Convergence -- Flashpoint -- Embers -- Exposed -- Time suspended -- Emergence -- Afterlife -- Against forgetting -- Gaman -- Hibakusha sources and selected bibliography. |