Nagasaki 1945

Author : John Hersey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593082362

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Hiroshima by John Hersey Pdf

Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.

Author : Tatsuichirō Akizuki
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081410537

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Nagasaki 1945 by Tatsuichirō Akizuki Pdf

Author : Clayton K. S. Chun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846037917

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Japan 1945 by Clayton K. S. Chun Pdf

A “what if?” look at allied plans to invade Japan, and the story of the creation and use of the atomic bomb. In this 200th Campaign series title Clayton Chun examines the final stages of World War II as the Allies debated how to bring about the surrender of Japan. He details Operation Downfall (the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands). Chun explains why these plans were never implemented, before examining the horrific alternative to military invasion – the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. With a series of illustrations, including detailed diagrams of the atomic bombs, a depiction of the different stages of the explosions and maps of the original invasion plans, this book provides a unique perspective of a key event in world history.

Author : Gar Alperovitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 067106150X

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Atomic Diplomacy by Gar Alperovitz Pdf

Author : Chad Diehl
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501709432

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Resurrecting Nagasaki by Chad Diehl Pdf

In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl explores the genesis of narratives surrounding the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945, by following the individuals and groups who contributed to the shaping of Nagasaki City's postwar identity. Municipal officials, survivor-activist groups, the Catholic community, and American occupation officials all interpreted the destruction and reconstruction of the city from different, sometimes disparate perspectives. Diehl's analysis reveals how these atomic narratives shaped both the way Nagasaki rebuilt and the ways in which popular discourse on the atomic bombings framed the city's experience for decades.

Author : Eamon Doherty
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438928500

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A New Look at Nagasaki, 1946 by Eamon Doherty Pdf

This book takes both a historical and personal views of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The historical view is provided by Dr. Devine, Joel Liebesfeld, Todd Liebesfeld, Esq., and Prof. Schuber. The personal view is presented by Dr. Doherty who discusses the account of Robert J. Walsh, a U.S. Army 34th Infantry soldier telephone lineman, who was stationed near Nagasaki. Robert took approximately 275 pictures for his photo album with a simple Kodak camera. Many of the pictures are at ground zero and show the devastation of the atomic bomb as well as a marker for the epicenter. Robert was also electrocuted on high voltage wires and fell off a telephone pole to the ground. His back was broken in three places and he was put in a coma so that he would stay still and the back could be fused. While in a coma, Robert was lost in one of the nearby hospitals. His mother received a telegram that he was lost. His mother was completely beside herself and turned to Congressman Fred A. Hartley Jr. for help. Congressman Hartley launched an investigation and found Robert in a hospital in Japan. Robert was in a body cast for two years, part of it in a coma, but did not get a bed sore due to the results of a Japanese nurse named Snowball who invented a special medical instrument that she used with Robert. Robert was brought back home and brought back to Walter Reed Hospital where doctors used innovative techniques to help him heal and walk again. The book also ends with Robert as a senior citizen who lives a normal life leading a dance group at his retirement center.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Iwanami Shoten/Tsai Fong Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000001279640

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The Impact of the A-bomb, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945-85 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Caren Barzelay Stelson
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books (R)
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467789035

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Sachiko by Caren Barzelay Stelson Pdf

This striking work of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945, and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath. Having conducted extensive interviews with Sachiko Yasui, Caren Stelson chronicles Sachiko's trauma and loss as well as her long journey to find peace. This book offers readers a remarkable new perspective on the final moments of World War II and their aftermath.

Author : Craig Collie
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742693927

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Nagasaki by Craig Collie Pdf

The war was coming to an end at last. The people of Nagasaki knew this as they desperately tried to survive each day's shortages of food and warmth - ordinary people going about their lives as normally as they could manage. People like Nagai, the doctor who'd just been told he had leukemia; Father Tamaya, the obliging Catholic priest, who'd agreed to postpone a return to his rural parish; and Koichi, the mobilised tram driver, who secretly watched the Noguchi sisters sobbing behind the company toilet block. Because the bombing of Hiroshima had been so devastating and there was severe media censorship, they knew nothing of what had befallen that city except for the unbelievable stories told by a few survivors who had just now arrived. Beyond Japan, forces they could never have imagined were mustering as the Americans prepared to drop their next atomic bomb on the armaments manufacturing city of Kokura. Bad weather, however, sent the pilots and their terrible load to Nagasaki, where a small group of 169 POWs, including 24 Australians, were digging air-raid shelters and repairing bridges near what became the bomb's epicentre. And, above the heads of them all, the machinery of wartime politics stumbled on towards its catastrophic finale. 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. We come as close as history will allow us to being there when 80,000 people died as a result of the bomb, half of that number instantaneously. The world had changed forever and the shock waves would ripple right up to the present day, as we continue to contemplate the terrible power of a nuclear future

Author : Herbert Feis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400868261

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The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II by Herbert Feis Pdf

This book discusses the decision to use the atomic bomb. Libraries and scholars will find it a necessary adjunct to their other studies by Pulitzer-Prize author Herbert Feis on World War II. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Manhattan Engineer District
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 149957651X

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The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Manhattan Engineer District Pdf

Statement by the President of the United States: "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British Grand Slam, which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare". These fateful words of the President on August 6th, 1945, marked the first public announcement of the greatest scientific achievement in history. The atomic bomb, first tested in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, had just been used against a military target.

Author : Kyoko Iriye Selden,Mark Selden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317458234

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The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Kyoko Iriye Selden,Mark Selden Pdf

This collection of factual reports, short stories, poems and drawings expresses in a deeply personal voice the devastating effects of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Author : Frank Barnaby,Douglas Holdstock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135209933

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Frank Barnaby,Douglas Holdstock Pdf

Fify-three years ago the first nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They killed some 250,000 poeple. A distinguished group of contributors examine the background and effects of the bombing and look at the lessons for a world which harbours 45,000 nuclear warheads.

Author : Dennis D. Wainstock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1936274000

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The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb by Dennis D. Wainstock Pdf

A clear and concise narrative of all the key elements of President Truman's most controversial decision leading to Japan's surrender.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309045377

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The Children of Atomic Bomb Survivors by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences Pdf

Do persons exposed to radiation suffer genetic effects that threaten their yet-to-be-born children? Researchers are concluding that the genetic risks of radiation are less than previously thought. This finding is explored in this volume about the children of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasakiâ€"the population that can provide the greatest insight into this critical issue. Assembled here for the first time are papers representing more than 40 years of research. These documents reveal key results related to radiation's effects on pregnancy termination, sex ratio, congenital defects, and early mortality of children. Edited by two of the principal architects of the studies, J. V. Neel and W. J. Schull, the volume also offers an important comparison with studies of the genetic effects of radiation on mice. The wealth of technical details will be immediately useful to geneticists and other specialists. Policymakers will be interested in the overall conclusions and discussion of future studies.