ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1957
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Nine who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Personal experiences of nine men who lived through both atomic bombings / Robert Trumbull

Tokio, Japan 1957. Mek povez, zaštitni omot, ilustrovano, engleski jezik, 148 strana.
Prvo izdanje.
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Retko.


The Japanese who survived the atomic bombings of both Nagasaki and Hiroshima are some of the most valuable people in the world. Now for the first time these men share the knowledge they gained then at such terrible cost— a knowledge which is vital for all humanity. It is an incredible and pitiful story by human beings who, up to now, have been only a statistic in the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission`s records— an inexpressibly moving tale of personal suffering and stoicism in the face of disaster.
The men are from all walks of life— from the publisher of a leading Nagasaki newspaper to a dockyard laborer. Like the 255,000 other inhabitants of Hiroshima, they were utterly unprepared for the Bomb. Eight of the nine accidentally or deliberately took cover in the few seconds which elapsed between the unearthly flash of light and the blast, which, in Hiroshima, wiped out about 64,000 citizens at a stroke and burned and maimed 72,000 more. The ninth was caught en route between his home and his plant. When they struggled to their feet and looked about them, the city they knew had vanished. In its place was a wasteland of flattened buildings and blackened earth lit by myriads of tiny flame; and peopled with bodies so horribly burned they were almost unrecognizable as human beings.
In the three days that followed each man for some reason made his way to Nagasaki by train—of them all the most pitiful, perhaps, was the young bride groom who took the journey in order to return the charred bones of his young bride to her family. They were the first survivors of the Hiroshima holocaust Nagasaki had seen. As they were describing their horrible experience, they saw the unearthly flash of light a second time. `There, you see it: That`s what I mean!` each one cried as he forced all those with him to take cover.
The impact of this epic story, as told by Robert Trumbull, is tremendous. To know what these men endured, and how they survived is supremely important for us all.