Hiroshima : the last witnesses
Sheftall, M. G. (Mordecai G.)2024
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these survivors and witnesses, now with an average age of over 90, are the last people alive who can still provide us with reliable and detailed testimony about life in Hiroshima before the bombings. In this heart-stopping account they relay what they experienced on the day the city was obliterated, and what it has been like to live with those memories and scars over the rest of their lives.M. G. Sheftall has spent years personally interviewing survivors who were just adolescents at the time but have lived well into their nineties, allowing him to construct portraits of what Hiroshima was like before the bomb, and how catastrophically its citizens' lives changed in the seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months and years afterwards. Fluent in spoken and written Japanese, his deep immersion in Japanese society has given him unprecedented access to the hibakusha in their waning years.
Main title:
Hiroshima : the last witnesses / M. G. Sheftall.
Author:
Sheftall, M. G. (Mordecai G.), author
Imprint:
London, UK : Headline, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
545 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Embers ; 1.
Notes:
Date Published 18/11/2024.Includes bibliographical references (pages 484-504) and index.
Audience:
General.
ISBN:
978103542268597810354226921035422697
Dewey class:
940.542521954940.5425
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
Biography & Memoir (Japan)Nuclear weapons (Japan)World War II (Japan)
BRN:
2292248