The story of the bombing of Hiroshima presented in a new and dramatic way: a minute-by-minute account told from multiple perspectives, both in the air and on the ground British feature and documentary director Stephen Walker tells the story of the bombing of Hiroshima in a way only a filmmaker can-not as a dry history of the sad, regrettable, mission, but as an immediate and perilous drama. Walker has extensively interviewed American soldiers, Los...

A "behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the Americans attack on Hiroshima"--Dust jacket flap.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Twelve-year-old Yuriko handles the everyday troubles of living with her annoying cousin Genji and talk of an impending double marriage as well as the events leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima and the end of the second World War.

Portrays the events of World War II in 1944, when escalating Pacific battles between the forces of General MacArthur and the Japanese army lead to the development of humanity's deadliest weapon and President Truman's impossible choice.

As a World War II combat soldier, Howard Zinn took part in the aerial bombing of Royan, France. Two decades later, he went to Hiroshima and met survivors of the atomic attack. Zinn offers his personal reflections and political analysis of these events, their consequences, and the influence they had in transforming him from an order-taking combat soldier to an anti-authoritarian, antiwar historian.

Twelve-year-old Nozomi's understanding of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 is transformed when she learns how those she knows and loves were affected by the event. Includes author's notes.