On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan's southernmost island.
... 1 Niblo, Winfield, 1 Nielsen, Olive V. McDaniel, 1 Nihon Hidankyō (Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations), 1 Nippon Eiga-sha (Japanese Film Company), 1 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, ...
Although he was a lawyer from South Australia by profession, Arthur Blackburn VC was a tough and experienced soldier who had distinguished himself ... Arthur Blackburn's Black Force dug in and prepared for a last stand in the mountains.
But though eager to identify his intruder, is Shimura really prepared for what the camera will reveal? This prize-winning novel is a heart-rending tale of alienation in the modern world.
This book, first published in 1970, examines the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, when an entire industrial city was devastated and the bulk of its population killed or wounded.
In this compelling narrative - based on eye-witness accounts, contemporary diaries, letters and interviews - Craig Collie collects up the stories of the many levels of devastation suffered on that fateful day.
Shimura-san vit seul dans sa maison à Nagasaki.
Shimura-san mène une existence solitaire et ordonnée dans la banlieue de Nagasaki.
. But the book’s biggest achievement is its treatment of the aftershocks in the decades since 1945.” —The New Yorker The enduring impact of a nuclear bomb, told through the stories of those who survived: necessary reading as the ...