This book is an account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, toldthrough 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 estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured. Published on the seventieth anniversary of the bombing, Nagasaki takes readers from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the ...
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This book is an account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, toldthrough 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 estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured. Published on the seventieth anniversary of the bombing, Nagasaki takes readers from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the first-hand experiences of five survivors, all of whom were teenagers at the time of the devastation Southard has spent years interviewing hibakusha ("bomb-affected people") and researching the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life. She weaves together eyewitness accounts with analysis of the policies of censorship and denial that colored much of what was reported about the bombing both in the United States and Japan.
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Very good. Boards and spine tight. Dust Jacket has some shelf/edge wear. Nice copy, with little wear. No apparent marks throughout this book. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
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New in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 389 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. New Hardcover book in a fine condition dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket. 2nd printing, 389 pages. AB50. About the book: This well-researched book tells the story of what it was like for various survivors of the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan days after the one dropped on Hiroshima. The author relates the experiences of various survivors before, during, and the hours, days, weeks, and decades after the bomb was dropped. AB50
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Very good in Very good jacket. xix, [3], 389, [5] pages. Illustrations. Includes Preface, A Note on Japanese Names and Terms, Prologue, Chapter 1: Convergence; Chapter 2: Flashpoint; Chapter 3: Embers; Chapter 4: Exposed; Chapter 5: Time suspended; Chapter 6: Emergence; Chapter 7: Afterlife; Chapter 8: Against Forgetting; Chapter 9: Gaman. Also includes Acknowledgments, Notes, Hibakusha Sources and Selected Bibliography, and Index. Also contains 2 black and white maps: one of Japan today, and one of Nagasaki 1945, showing the scope of Atomic Bomb Damage. Susan Southard is an American non-fiction writer. She won the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, for her book Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War. Southard graduated from Antioch University, Los Angeles, with an MFA in creative writing. She has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and Lapham's Quarterly. For much of the world, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki represented an end to a long and costly global war. But for tens of thousands of survivors who barely escaped death beneath the mushroom cloud, their new lives as hibakusha (atomic bomb affected people) had just begun. The author spent more than a decade researching and interviewing hibakusha and atomic bomb historians, physicians, and specialists to reconstruct the days, months, and years after the bombing. Using powerful eyewitness accounts, the author unveils the neglected story of the enduring impact of nuclear war. Derived from a Kirkus review: Intense, deeply detailed, and compassionate account of the atomic bomb's effects on the people and city of Nagasaki, then and now. The generation of hibakusha, or atomic-bomb survivors, is sadly passing away, as journalist and artistic director Southard acknowledges in her tracking of the experiences of five who were teenagers in the once-thriving port city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. As the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the bomb over Nagasaki approaches, the author aims to enlighten her American audience, whose largely unequivocal stance about the rightness of forcing Japan to capitulate and the ignorance regarding radiation exposure the U.S. government took great pains to promote have kept readers unaware, she believes, of the magnitude of this nuclear annihilation-"a scale that defies imagination." These five teenagers, and many like them, had all been enlisted in the war effort, as had their families in Nagasaki, one of Japan's first Westernized cities, containing the largest Christian population. One of the teens delivered mail, one was a streetcar operator, and several worked in the Mitsubishi factories that lined the river. When the bomb obliterated the Urakami Valley, where many of them lived, all lost family members and were horribly injured and scarred for life. Southard's descriptions stick to the eyewitness accounts of these and other survivors, and they are tremendously moving, nearly unbearable to read, and accompanied by gruesome photos. She alternates first-person accounts-e.g., reports by the Japanese doctors who first treated the burns and identified the subsequent radiation "sickness"-with an outline of the political developments at the war's conclusion. The author emphasizes the postwar censorship imposed by the U.S. occupying force in Japan regarding the discussion of the bombing or radiation effects, as well as the bravery of the hibakusha, who were determined to speak the truth. A valiant, moving work of research certain to provoke vigorous discussion.
