HIBAKUSHA
Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
with a foreword by George Marshall and an introduction by Naomi Shohno
This collection of firsthand
accounts by hibakusha--survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in August 1945--offers a vivid mosaic of what it was actually like
to experience nuclear holocaust. The twenty-five essayists represent a cross
section of the bombs' victims: soldiers, doctors and nurses, children, housewives,
Koreans taken to Japan for forced labor. Their unadorned narration of what
they saw and felt in the summer of 1945, and of its lasting impact on their
lives, has a pitiless honesty that renders it a far more damning indictment
of nuclear weapons than the most skillfully argued polemic. "A heart-searing
book." --The Japan Times
GEORGE MARSHALL is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister. NAOMI SHOHNO, D.Sc., is a nuclear physicist. 206 pp. 13.5 cm. x 21 cm. 24 pp. photos. Maps. (softcover)
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