Letters from the End of the World A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima

Tokyo: Kodansha USA. New in New dust jacket. 2001. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. 4770027761 . B&W Illustrations; 8.19 X 5.59 X 0.79 inches; 198 pages; Soft cover is black with white lettering on cover and spine. DJ has slight bumping. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Laid in is a read piece of heavy paper, written in Japanese. Originally published in 1948, this is the first paperback edition, from 2001. Translated by Kisaburo Murakami and Shigero Fujii. "2 weeks after the bombing of Hiroshima [6 August, 1945] 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, in1948, 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 hs wife and youngest son...The author's children and even his dead wife add thier voices in a brief appended sections of letters, diary entries and drawings". .