Letters from the end of the world : a firsthand account of the bombing of Hiroshima

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Formatted Contents Note:	Letter 1. A Pageant of Clouds and Light -- Letter 2. A Blast and a Wave of Heat -- Letter 3. A City Transformed -- Letter 4. The Inferno -- Letter 5. Mothers and Children -- Letter 6. Continuing the Search -- Letter 7. Meeting -- Letter 8. The Day of the Imperial Rescript -- Letter 9. Hypocenter -- Letter 10. A Target for the Atomic Bomb -- Letter 11. Radiation Sickness -- Letter 12. Lingering Fears -- Letter 13. The Thinker -- App. The Author's Letter to the Children -- App. Fumiyo's Letter to the Children -- App. Kinji's Composition -- App. Kazuko's Letter to Her Family -- App. Kazuko's Diary -- App. "Standing Up to the Rain" / Kenji Miyazawa -- Afterword / Kotaro Takamura.
Summary, etc.:	A collection of letters that document the catastrophe of Hiroshima. The author - a professor of history at Hiroshima University - spent several days after bomb searching for his wife and son. His joy on being re-united with them was short-lived as radiation sickness took his wife ten days later.
Language Note:	Translated from the Japanese.