books about: nagasaki

books about: nagasaki

books:

Nagasaki

Kazuo Ishiguro

Vintage, 1990

It doesn't matter how old someone is, it's what they've experienced that counts
Under the surface of apparently harmless conversations, the author uncovers Japan's `very strict and very patriotic' old world of `discipline, loyalty, such things held Japan together once. People were bound by a sense of duty. Towards one's family, towards superiors, ...

Living With the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age (Japan in the Modern World)

East Gate Book, 1997

World War 2 Tales

Bentley Boyd

Chester Comix, 2005

Great book for an elementary school boy
This book series is one of my son's favorites. He will reread all the books because the pictures and the stories have such great details that he constantly finds something interesting. He finds the topics fascinating and I like the books because many of the US ...

First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War

George Weller

Three Rivers Press, 2007

A Stiff But Important Read
In the foreword, Walter Cronkite says: "This is an important book -- important and gripping." Somehow, categorizing a book as "important" has always struck me as a rather weak recommendation ... until now. A gentleman I have known for years has told me often of his ...

Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Gaynor Sekimori, George Marshall

Charles E Tuttle Co, 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 ...

A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine

John K. Nelson

University of Washington Press, 1996

Truly understanding Shinto
"A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine" is the best book on Shinto that I have ever read, and that is really saying something as I have read a lot of books on Shinto. It is the first book I have seen that puts things in layman's terms while not dumbing down a fairly ...

Japan 1945: From Operation Downfall to Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Campaign)
Clayton Chun

Osprey Publishing, 2008

In this 200th Campaign series title Clayton Chun examines the final stages of World War II as the Allies debated how to bring about the surrender of Japan. Chun not only describes the actual events but also analyzes the possible operations to capture the Japanese mainland which were never implemented. He details Operation Downfall (the planned ...

Teach Us to Live: stories from Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Diana Wickes Roose

Intentional Productions, 2007

Teach Us to Live: Stories from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
These stories are so moving, and the voices reading them aloud add such a richness to the experience. What a lot of work these interviews entailed and what a mitzvah the author has done for all of us who will read this important book and realize more deeply the ...

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 ...

The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: August 1945
Dennis D. Wainstock

Enigma Books, 2008

This book describes in detail the efforts of Imperial Japan to seek an honorable surrender and the decision by the United States to drop two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945. While the main focus is on the political aspects, every facet of the decision made by President Harry Truman is also examined, including the military and logistical ...

From Japan With Love: 1946-1948

Mary A. Ruggieri

Portsmouth Pub., 2007

A Delightful Reminiscence Of Post-War Japan
This is a warm, rich, charming, evocative, and often humorous memoir of life and love in post-war Japan, with many rare photos of the era (certainly including the photo of the bridge from Takeishima Island, page 118), which makes this tapestry of reminiscence such a ...

Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands ...

James N. Yamazaki, Louis B. Fleming

Duke University Press, 1995

Fallout
"Children of the Atomic Bomb" is a disturbing look into the after effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II. In reference to the fallout of radiation, the Marshall Islands incident is also discussed. The author's primary ...

On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Sheila Hamanaka

Clarion Books, 1995

Teaching and Learning about Peace and WWII
Writers and illustrators speak out for peace in this colorful, inspiring book. The introduction is a comprehensive and succinct account of WWII that can be easily understood by children.

Weapons For Victory: The Hiroshima Decision
Robert James Maddox

University of Missouri Press, 2004

The highly acclaimed Weapons for Victory originally appeared in 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. Now, in this paperback edition, Robert James Maddox provides a new introduction about the ongoing controversy related to the decision to bomb Hiroshima. "[Maddox's] research is exhaustive, his logic is admirable, and his ...

The Bells of Nagasaki : A Message of Hope from a Witness, a Doctor

Takashi Nagai

Kodansha America, 1984

Christian view of Nagasaki bomb by victim
The author's friends, colleagues and wife were killed instantly by the atomic bomb and he died of injuries after a few years leaving his children orphans. He was a Christian, a part of the Nagasaki Christian community which had experienced persecution from the time ...