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xiii, 338 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index. |
| Summary |
In early August 1945, the people of Nagasaki went about the usual struggle of their daily wartime existence. No-one could have imagined the horror of what was about to happen. Nagasaki follows ordinary people on the ground in the hours after the dropping of the bomb. |
| Contents |
Hiroshima, Monday 6 August 1945, morning -- Hiroshima, Monday 6 August 1945 -- Nagasaki, Monday 6 August 1945 -- Moscow, Sunday 5 August 1945, evening -- Potsdam, 16-29 July 1945 -- Nagasaki, Tuesday 7 August 1945 -- Nagasaki, Tuesday 7 August 1945 -- Nagasaki, Wednesday 8 August 1945 -- Nagasaki, Wednesday 8 August 1945 -- Nagasaki, Thursday 9 August 1945, morning -- Nagasaki, Thursday 9 August 1945, morning -- Nagasaki, Thursday 9 August 1945, midday -- Nagasaki, Thursday 9 August 1945, afternoon -- Nagasaki, Thursday 9 August 1945, evening -- Tokyo, Friday 10 August 1945 and after -- Nagasaki, Friday 10 August 1945 and after. |
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Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Personal narratives.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Personal narratives.
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Atomic bomb -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi.
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Japan -- History -- 1912-1945.
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| ISBN |
9781742372891 (pbk.) |
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1742372899 (pbk.) |
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