Letters from the End of the World: Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima

Ogura, Toyofumi

ISBN 10: 477002147X / ISBN 13: 9784770021472

Published by Kodansha International Ltd, 1997

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Cream hard cover with black titles on front and spine. In very tidy condition with no inscriptions or markings. Dust jacket is tidy with faded spine. "More than fifty years after the Second World War, the scars left by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima refuse to heal. This compelling account of one man's experience gives a human face to the events of August 6, 1945. For a week after the bombing, the author, who was an assistant professor at Hiroshima University, wandered the decimated streets of the city, searching for his wife and his youngest son. He finally located them, but his wife died just days later. Grief-stricken, the author wrote her a series of letters over the next year outlining the things he had seen and heard during her last days on earth. In 1948, the letters became the first eyewitness account of an atomic bombing ever published. This powerful record shows how one family's future was altered in an instant. Comprised of correspondence, diary entries and drawings, Letters from the End of the World presents the events surrounding the close of World War II in terms so personal they will not soon be forgotten.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letters from the End of the World: Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima
• Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 477002147X
• ISBN 13: 9784770021472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

English (translation)Original Japanese

About the Author

TOYOFUMI OGURA was born in 1899 in Chiba Prefecture. He taught history at Hiroshima University for nearly twenty years, from 1945 through his mandatory retirement in 1963, and was then appointed an honorary professor. His books include critical works on the well-known poet and children's author Kenji Miyazawa and a study of folk belief in the ancient historical figure Prince Shotoku. He died in 1996.