Letters from the End of the World
Subtitle: A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima
Contributors: Kisaburo Murakami (Translator); Shigeru Fujii (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Kodansha International
Published: November 12, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9784770027764
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Military; History; History - Military / War; Japan; Military - World War II; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Asia - Japan
First sentence: That was what you said, the words coming out in broken phrases, when I finally found you alive on the night of August 7.
Description: A collection of letters that document the catastrophe of Hiroshima. The author - a professor of history at Hiroshima University - spent several days after bomb searching for his wife and son. His joy on being re-united with them was short-lived as radiation sickness took his wife ten days later.