Hersey, John

Summary: Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1985

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Hersey, John

Summary: On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb destroyed the city of Hiroshima, Japan. In this book, Hersey reveals what happened that day. Told through the memories of the six survivors, it is a timeless, powerful and compassionate document.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003

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Summary: Set in the three weeks from the test explosion in New Mexico to the dropping of the bomb, the action takes viewers into the room where the crucial political decisions are made, on board the Enola Gay, inside the bomb as it explodes, and in Hiroshima.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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Hersey, John

Summary: Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Pathfinder Editions 1966

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Pellegrino, Charles R.

Summary: Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices detonated over Japan changed life on Earth forever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010

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Brallier, Jess M

Summary: "By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the fighting continued between American forces and the Japanese, who were losing but determined to fight till the bitter end. And so it fell to a new president--Harry S. Truman--to make the fateful decision to drop two atomic bombs--one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki--and bring the war to rapid close. Now, even seventy years later, can...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020

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Summary: Through interviews with survivors, provides an inside look at life and culture in the city of Hiroshima before the first atomic bomb was dropped.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2015

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Walker, Stephen

Summary: On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, the first atomic bomb detonated as expected, resulting in nearly 100,000 deaths. The Japanese surrendered nine days later. But if the bombing of Hiroshima represents one of the signal events of the twentieth century--indeed, in the history of mankind--at the time it was but another episode in an unprecedented drama whose final act had begun three weeks...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005

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Ham, Paul

Summary: In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Rotter, Andrew Jon.

Summary: Reveals the international story behind the creation of the atom bomb and the development of the modern age, as it discusses the crises that led to the Second World War, unsuccessful attempts to control the spread of nuclear weapons, the political and strategic decisions that led to the bomb, and its implications for the modern world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008

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Summary: A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003

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Hiroshima (Musical group)

Contents: Mix plate (4:22) -- Dreams (4:21) -- The door is open (4:35) -- Joe jazz (3:46) -- Sup poze (3:46) -- Picasso's dance (4:25) -- After the rain (4:17) -- Things unsaid (5:20) -- Circle of friends (4:55) -- World of dreams (4:55) -- Omotai (1:30) -- Sol cruz (4:40).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Windham Hill Jazz 1999

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Hiroshima (Musical group)

Contents: Eternal phoenix -- Caravan of love -- Shaka phonk -- Believe -- Revelation -- Another wish -- I just wanna hang around you -- Manzanar -- Viven -- Sanju -- Seven rivers.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Heads Up 2003

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Summary: Enola Gay: Get a look inside the bomber that helped bring WWII to a stop, development of the atomic bomb, and the aftermath. Hiroshima: Fifty years after America dropped the first atomic bomb, this documentary looks at the events leading up to its use in the light of new information about a hidden agenda. Did top military officials order the attack despite knowing that Japan was willing to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005

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Langley, Andrew.

Summary: Describes the events surrounding the World War II bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, discussing the long term repercussions and the overall results from a military standpoint.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2006

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Takaki, Ronald T.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1995

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Kurzman, Dan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1985

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Wittner, Lawrence S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1978

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Nakazawa, Keiji.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Last Gasp of San Francisco 2003

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BAR

Contents: You put a move on my heart / Quincy Jones featuring Tamia (edit : 4:20) -- Come lie with me / Holly Palmer (4:44) -- Seduction / Boney James (edit : 3:45) -- I'm calling you / Marilyn Scott (edit : 3:37) -- Through the fire / Chaka Khan (4:47) -- Could you learn to love / Tevin Campbell (4:09) -- Heaven / Nu Flavor (5:25) -- Please don't bend / Donovan (4:12) -- Sentimental man / The Blue Nile...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1997

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Lifton, Robert Jay

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 LIF