Book, Kodansha International, Letters from the end of the world a firsthand account of the bombing of Hiroshima, 1997

Physical description

Ill, map, p.194.

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

A collection of letters that document the catastrophe of Hiroshima. The author - a professor of history at Hiroshima University - spent several days after bomb searching for his wife and son. His joy on being re-united with them was short-lived as radiation sickness took his wife ten days later.

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