Children of Hiroshima

By Arata Osada and Mr. & Mrs. Minoru (Illustrators) Osada, Dr. Arata (Compiler); Dan, Jean & Sieben-Morgen, Ruth (Trans

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006090965X
• ISBN13: 9780060909659
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.0" x 12.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

nuclear devastation as seen by children who experienced it

This book has long been out of print. Most recently (1982) it was published as a paperback, but its original oversize hardback format was superior because it contained illustrations rendered by amateurs who were there, as well as text. The editor, Dr. Arata Osada, collected school essays written in 1950 by children of Hiroshima. He organized them by age from primary school (5th grade) through college. Thus the children were between 5 and about 15 in 1945. Many of these accounts are touching and emotional in their stark simplicity. Too often we think objectively of war. This volume provides a subjective view of young people caught up in a cataclysmic event and its aftermath. It is a testament to humanity. Such a book written by children of Rwanda, or Cambodia, or Bosnia might equal this book, but I fear they too would soon be out of print. No one wants to read the plain truth without justifications, explanations, analyses, plans of action, etc. Just what was.