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This book is a powerful and unflinching account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, told through the stories of those who survived. On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan's southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured. Published on the seventieth anniversary of...
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[1992]
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This pathbreaking work of oral history captures for the first time ever - in either Japanese or English - the remarkable story of ordinary Japanese people during World War II. In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook take us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese homefront during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses of how this century's most violent conflict affected...
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2007.
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"The Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942, is arguably the most famous naval battle in American history. Although there are a number of excellent accounts of the battle, none satisfactorily explain why the Japanese lost, given their overwhelming advantage in firepower. In particular, there has been no satisfactory explanation for the central mystery of the battle: why the Japanese could not get a bomber strike launched against the American carrier force...
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[2020]
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"'Voluntary evacuation,' a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II with roughly 120,000 people forced from their homes by Executive Order 9066. Around 5,000 escaped. Recounting her family's flight from home and the influence of those experiences. Like many families who lost everything and started over in hostile environments"--Provided by publisher.
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