Grab Your Edition Letters From The End Of The World: A Firsthand Account Of The Bombing Of Hiroshima Formulated By Toyofumi Ogura Disseminated As Volume

this for RRC book club, We had a good discussion, Lugubrious!

It almost moved me to tears, A true personal account of how life was immediately before and after the bombing, You have to read this book, In my head, I thought you either died instantly or died of radiation poisoning later, I never imagined there was so much terrible in between, It was morbidly fascinating to hear about the different ways the bomb caused such destruction, It is so tragic. I was surprised at how little the author seemed to blame America, especially when compared with the letter from one of his kids who was clearly very angry about it.
Engrossing first hand account of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, This book was originally published in, taken from a series of letters the author wrote to his wife who diedweeks after the blast.
The author chronicals in detail his own experiences as well as those of all he met in those first crital days and weeks.
Heart wrenching. I bought this book in Heroshima when I was there in December of, An iteresting take on the bombing of Hiroshima, The reader is told the sotyr through love letters he writes to his dead wife, I alwasy like reading books about history that are from a narrative point of view, not so "text booky" and this book does the trick.
A love story in the form of letters to the author's young wife, who died soon after the bombing of Hiroshima,

More than fifty years after the Second World War, the scars left by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima refuse to heal.
This compelling account of one man's experience gives a human face to the events of August,,

For a week after the bombing, the author, who was an assistant professor at Hiroshima University, wandered the decimated streets of the city, searching for his wife and his youngest son.
He finally located them, but his wife died just days later, Griefstricken, the author wrote her a series of letters over the next year outlining the things he had seen and heard during her last days on earth.
In, the letters became the first eyewitness account of an atomic bombing ever published,

This powerful record shows how one family's future was altered in an instant, Comprised of correspondence, diary entries and drawings, Letters

from the End of the World presents the events surrounding the close of World War II in terms so personal they will not soon be forgotten.


"By the time we reach the account of Fumiyo's horrifying death on Aug,, which we see from both Ogura's perspective and that of hisyearold daugther, Kazuko, who kept a diary, the sadness and anger that have been building up through the whole book are almost unbearable.
The uncompromising anger toward Japan's military leaders that is expressed throughout is striking and unusual, "
Elizabeth Ward, The Japan Times,