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the last witnesses /
M.G. Sheftall.

545 pages :

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Summary: The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War. Based on years of personal interviews with hibakusha -- Japanese for atomic bomb survivors. Accounts of 6 August 1945 -- the day the world changed forever as the Enola Gay dropped its payload over Hiroshima, ushering in the nuclear age. These survivors and witnesses, now with an average age of over 90, are the last people alive who can still provide us with reliable and detailed testimony about life in Hiroshima before the bombings. The hibakusha relay what they experienced on the day the city was obliterated, and what it has been like to live with those memories and scars over the rest of their lives. The author has spent years personally interviewing survivors who were just adolescents at the time but have lived well into their nineties, allowing him to construct portraits of what Hiroshima was like before the bomb, and how catastrophically its citizens' lives changed in the seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months and years afterwards. (Publisher)

Embers (Headline Press) ;
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