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Hiroshima: In Memoriam and Today is a collection of stories of survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. It was edited by Hitoshi Takayama. It also contains a number of opinions and messages from world leaders including Pope John Paul II, Australian Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser, South African President F.W. de Klerk and UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.
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Hiroshima is a 1946 book by American author John Hersey.It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.It is regarded as one of the earliest examples of New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting.
The following month, by directive of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, the censorship of topics like the atomic bomb in the media came into operation, [5] with the effect that books dealing with this topic, like a poetry collection of Sadako Kurihara [5] or Yōko Ōta's novel City of Corpses, [6] initially appeared only in abridged form.
The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back and its revised second edition To Hell and Back: The Last Train From Hiroshima is a book by American author Charles R. Pellegrino and published on January 19, 2010 by Henry Holt and Company that documents life in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the time immediately preceding, during and following ...
Strike order for the Hiroshima bombing as posted on 5 August 1945 Hiroshima was the primary target of the first atomic bombing mission on 6 August, with Kokura and Nagasaki as alternative targets. The 393rd Bombardment Squadron B-29 Enola Gay , named after Tibbets's mother and piloted by Tibbets, took off from North Field, Tinian , about six ...
Novels about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Books about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Kiyoshi Tanimoto (谷本 清, Tanimoto Kiyoshi, June 27, 1909 – September 28, 1986) was a Japanese Methodist minister famous for his humanitarian work for the Hiroshima Maidens. Tanimoto was a U.S educated Methodist minister and moved to Hiroshima with his wife during the midst of World War II.