Letters from the End of the World: A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima by Ogura, Toyofumi

Kodansha USA, 2001-11-09. Paperback. Used:Good.

2001 Kodansha illustrated first trade paperback with dust jacket, 198 pages. Binding, cover, clean pages and dust jacket are VG+. Ships within 24 hours of order via USPS media mail. Display easel not included. Please email with questions or for more photos. Thanks for looking.

"Letters from the End of the World: A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima" by Toyofumi Ogura. Translated by Kisaburo Murakami and Shigeru Fujji. Published by Kodansha International. First Paperback edition 2001. Printed in Japan. Illustrations. Appendices. Afterword by Kotaro Takamura. Glossary. Fine dust jacket and Fine book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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… Read More

Kodansha USA, 2001-11-09. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!