Letters from the End of the World: Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima

Ogura, Toyofumi

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Language: English

Published by Kodansha International Ltd, 1997

477002147X / 9784770021472

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Cream hard cover with black titles on front and spine. In very tidy condition with no inscriptions or markings. Dust jacket is tidy with faded spine. "More than fifty years after the Second World War, the scars left by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima refuse to heal. This compelling account of one man's experience gives a human face to the events of August 6, 1945. For a week after the bombing, the author, who was an assistant professor at Hiroshima University, wandered the decimated streets of the city, searching for his wife and his youngest son. He finally located them, but his wife died just days later. Grief-stricken, the author wrote her a series of letters over the next year outlining the things he had seen and heard during her last days on earth. In 1948, the letters became the first eyewitness account of an atomic bombing ever published. This powerful record shows how one family's future was altered in an instant. Comprised of correspondence, diary entries and drawings, Letters from the End of the World presents the events surrounding the close of World War II in terms so personal they will not soon be forgotten.".

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Title
Letters from the End of the World: Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima
Author
Ogura, Toyofumi
Publisher
Kodansha International Ltd
Publication year
1997
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
477002147X
ISBN 13
9784770021472
Edition
First Edition.
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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