Hiroshima by John Hersey is a groundbreaking work of nonfiction that provides a deeply moving and meticulously detailed account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. First published in 1946, this classic piece of reportage takes readers into the lives of six survivors-a doctor, a widow, two clergymen, a seamstress, and a factory worker-revealing the profound human cost of one of history's most devastating events. Hersey's...

Introduces the issues surrounding the dropping of the atomic bombs in World War II via the perspectives of three different participants.

"When Amaterasu Takahashi opens the door of her Philadelphia home to a badly scarred man claiming to be her grandson, she doesn't believe him. Her grandson and her daughter, Yuko, perished nearly forty years ago during the bombing of Nagasaki. But the man carries with him a collection of sealed private letters that open a Pandora's Box of family secrets Ama had sworn to leave behind when she fled Japan. She is forced to confront her memories of the...

Relates how scientists in several countries over a period of many years conducted research that ultimately led to the invention of the atomic bomb, which was then used against Japan in the hope of ending World War II.

The story of the bombing of Hiroshima presented in a new and dramatic way: a minute-by-minute account told from multiple perspectives, both in the air and on the ground British feature and documentary director Stephen Walker tells the story of the bombing of Hiroshima in a way only a filmmaker can-not as a dry history of the sad, regrettable, mission, but as an immediate and perilous drama. Walker has extensively interviewed American soldiers, Los...

Follows the war against Japan from the raid on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945.

"The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience"-- Provided by publisher.

Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.

A groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times. Over recent decades, Pulitzer-winning historian John W. Dower has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. Here he examines the cultures of war revealed by four powerful events--Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and the invasion of Iraq in the name of a war on terror. The list of issues examined and themes explored is wide-ranging:...