Hiroshima
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9780881030259
Subjects: History - Military / War; World - General; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Bombardment, 1945; Military - World War II; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Japan; History; Asia - Japan; Blast effect; World War, 1939-1945; Atomic bomb; Hiroshima-shi
First sentence: AT EXACTLY fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.