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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Hiroshima, Nagasaki Hiroshima, Nagasaki Paul Ham In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombin… OL19663002W
Sachiko Sachiko Caren Stelson This striking piece of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six year old Sachiko Yasui's miraculous survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 and the heartbreaking and lifelong a… OL20036919W
Barefoot Gen, Vol. 3 Barefoot Gen, Vol. 3 中沢 啓治 Japan, August 1945. Young Gen Nakaoka and his mother, Kimie, along with baby Tomoko, have left behind the desolation that only days earlier had been the beautiful city of Hiroshima. Now in the nearby… OL2169584W
Hiroshima in America Hiroshima in America Robert Jay Lifton,Greg Mitchell,Greg Mitchell,Robert Jay Lifton A study of the events surrounding the Hiroshima bombing focuses on its effects in America, considering the cover-up efforts by the government and linking the bombing to current insensitivities toward… OL31299W
Folding Paper Cranes Folding Paper Cranes Leonard Bird A bronze monument - the Tower of a Thousand Cranes - stands in Hiroshima's International Peace Park, mute testimony to Sadako Sasaki, a young victim of the atomic bomb whose radiation-induced leukemi… OL5814228W