Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year“A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb’s enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and haunting. . . . But the book’s biggest achievement is its treatment of the...
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A Washington Post Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year“A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb’s enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and haunting. . . . But the book’s biggest achievement is its treatment of the aftershocks in the decades since 1945.” —The New YorkerA powerful and unflinching acco
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ISBN:
9780143109426
Publisher: Penguin Books , London
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
War,
Military,
Asian Literature,
World War II,
Japan,
Japanese Literature,
Historical
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War is a haunting account of the second atomic bomb to fall on a civilian populace. As the title implies, this book goes far beyond the events of August 9, 1945, though it is in the initial weeks and months after the bombing that the story of Nagasaki is most gripping. S...