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Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman
Last Gasp, 2004
Easy way to get a sense of a historical event.
The manga form of presentation makes reading about the prelude to this event easy and fast. The book seemed to be reasonably accurate with historical documentation and the visual format allowed the author to include detail that might otherwise have become difficult to ...
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Hiroshima in History and Memory
Cambridge University Press, 1996
Public Memory V Private Memory
An essential feature of any historical work is the selection ofsources one wishes to present as an argument. The role of memory and access to history, that is public access to 'other' histories, is an area of much contention in the contemporary world. What I most ...
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Black Wind (The Secret History of the World)
Wilsongs, 2010
A fantastic tour-de-force
This book has ambitious scope and it fully carries it. It is well written, touching, and fascinating.
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History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
Holt Paperbacks, 1996
Public Stewardship and Ownership of Common History
First of all, this book isn't really about the Enola Gay, or honestly about any of the events that happen within the chapters. This book is about pubic ownership of common histories. When the Enola Gay bombed, for instance, the dominant culture was behind act. Still ...
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
Marguerite Duras
Grove Press, 1994
Sleeping with the Enemy
"Hiroshima Mon Amour" is a groundbreaking French New Wave movie. It begins with the French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) passionately making love.... then it cuts to the horrors of the atomic bomb. The viewer goes from the boudoir's ...
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Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (P.S.)
Stephen Walker
Harper Perennial, 2006
Compelling, even breathtaking
I saw a recorded talk ths author gave on CSPAN. His presentation was so compelling that I told my wife, "If he writes half as good as he speaks, this book is a winner". I downloaded the book and finished it within 48 hours.
The author takes you inside the lives ...
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Hiroshima
John Hersey
Vintage Books, 1989
Essential reading
In 1946, barely a year after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 & 9, 1945, John Hersey wrote an important little booklet about the effects of the bomb upon the lives of six Hiroshima residents who survived the blast. Updated several times over ...
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Hiroshima
John Hersey
Vintage, 1989
The atomic bomb was not the prettiest part of the war
This novel is the best, accurate, and historical record of the people of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb hit in 1945. The entire town was left in ruins, and the people had to do all the could to make it out and survive. It was the most horrible moment for Japan, and ...
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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan
J. Samuel Walker
The University of North Carolina Press, 2005
Historiography at its Finest
One of the most complex, divisive, and nuanced debates in the history of the twentieth century is the decision by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in August 1945 to drop two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, thereby ending World War II. A traditional ...
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The Bomb (City Lights Open Media)
Howard Zinn
City Lights Publishers, 2010
Moral Responsibility Today
One effect of the complex organizational structures that characterize modern life is the diffusion of responsibility. Great crimes are rarely authored by individuals. Instead, they are planned and executed by large associations of individuals, each of whom may feel as ...
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Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda
John E. Mueller
Oxford University Press, USA, 2009
Interesting and counter-intuitive
This book challenges many assumptions of the war on terror and is a useful intellectual counter-weight as our country continues to funnel billions of dollars into national security.
The author cites many interesting points, such as all nuclear weapons not being ...
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Great World War II Projects You Can Build Yourself (Build It Yourself series)
Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
Nomad Press, 2006
Fantastic Book for leaning WWII History - while having fun!
What a great book to teach children about WWII while having fun at the same time! I highly recommend this book to parents (and teachers!)who want to involve their children in entertaining, stimulating activities that engage the mind as well as the hands. Extremely well ...
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Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Kosei Publishing Company, 1989
Please visit to Hiroshima,Nagasaki, and listen to the survivor's voice
Hibakusha's age(the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where is only city fell atomic bombs in the world) is getting to be older recently. Their age will be over 70 years old in many cases. At the same time, the young people in Japan who don't know about Genbaku in ...
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A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies
Martin Sherwin
Stanford University Press, 2003
The Destroyer of Worlds
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki forever changed the world landscape. The Nuclear Age came to be and a new god arose out of the ashes. The atomic bomb and nuclearism (the worshipful embrace of atomic weapons) came to rule the world in the vacancy left by ...
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Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
Eleanor Coerr
Putnam Juvenile, 1999
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
"If a sick person folds one thousand paper cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again." Sadako was two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on her home town of Hiroshima. Ten years later she developed leukemia as a result of radiation from ...
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