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(★)(Titulo original : 絶後の記録 [Zetsugo no kiroku])(Fifty years after the war, the scars left by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima refuse to heal. This book is a compelling account of one man´s experience of the extraordinary events of August 6, 1945. Two weeks after the bombing the author´s wife died from radiation sickness. In an attempt to work through his grief, the author wrote her a series of letters over the following year outlining the things he had seen and heard during her last days. That series of letters became, in 1948, the first eyewitness account of an atomic bombing ever published. Ogura, who was on the history faculty of Hiroshima University, turns an unflinching eye on the horrors he confronted after the bombing as he walked the decimated streets of the city for days, searching for his wife and youngest son. This remarkable tale shows how devastatingly one family´s future was altered in an instant. The author´s children and even his dead wife add their voices in a brief appended section of letters, diary entries and drawings. No matter what opinions a person may hold about the use of atomic bombs in warfare, ´Letters from the End of the World´ presents the events surrounding the close of World War II in terms that are so personal they will not soon be forgotten. ◆Toyofumi Ogura was born in 1899 in Chiba Prefecture. He taught history at Hiroshima University for nearly twenty years, from 1945 through his mandatory retirement in 1963, and was then appointed an honorary professor. His books include critical works on the well-known poet and children´s author Kenji Miyazawa and a study of folk belief in the ancient historical figure Prince Shotoku. He died in 1996.) |
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