Nagasaki : life after nuclear war / Susan Southard.

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 estimat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Southard, Susan (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Viking, [2015]
Subjects:
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Personal narratives, Japanese.
Atomic bomb victims > Japan > Nagasaki-shi > Biography.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) > History.
Atomic bomb victims.
Japan > Nagasaki-shi.
1945
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
History.
Personal narratives > Japanese.
Genre:
Biography.
Personal narratives, Japanese.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
History.
Personal narratives
Japanese.
Physical Description:xix, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.