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Free Download Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses (Embers) by M. G. Sheftall
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 059347225X | 560 pages | PDF | 6.01 Mb
One of Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024

Free Download Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CR4H57QL | 2024 | 17 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 494 MB
Author: M. G. Sheftall
Narrator: Brian Nishii
The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience. In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of hibakusha-the Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors-in harrowing detail, to give a minute-by-minute report of August 6, 1945, in the leadup and aftermath of the world-changing bombing mission of Paul Tibbets, Enola Gay, and Little Boy. These survivors and witnesses, who now have an average age over ninety years old, are quite literally the last people who can still provide us with reliable and detailed testimony about life in their cities before the bombings, tell us what they experienced on the day those cities were obliterated, and give us some appreciation of what it has entailed to live with those memories and scars during the subsequent seventy-plus years.

Free Download Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses (Embers) by M. G. Sheftall
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 059347225X | 560 pages | True EPUB | 2.75 MB
The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience

Free Download On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare By Noam Chomsky, Andre Vltchek
2013 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0745333877 | PDF | 8 MB
In On Western Terrorism Noam Chomsky, world renowned dissident intellectual, discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek. The discussion weaves together a historical narrative with the two men’s personal experiences which led them to a life of activism. The discussion includes personal memories, such as the New York newsstand where Chomsky began his political education, and broadens out to look at the shifting forms of imperial control and the Western propaganda apparatus. Along the way the discussion touches on many countries of which the authors have personal experience, from Nicaragua and Cuba, to China, Chile, Turkey and many more. A blast of fresh air which blows away the cobwebs of propaganda and deception, On Western Terrorism is a powerful critique of the West’s role in the world which will inspire all those who read it to think independently and critically.

Free Download Michael Kort, "The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb"
English | 2007 | pages: 456 | ISBN: 0231130163 | EPUB | 16,1 mb
Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman’s decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II.

Free Download Kazumi Wilds, "The Peace Tree from Hiroshima: The Little Bonsai with a Big Story"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 4805313471 | EPUB | pages: 32 | 3.8 mb
**Winner of the 2017 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award **

Free Download Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 by Michihiko Hachiya MD, Robertson Dean, Tantor Audio
English | 2014 | ISBN: B00PYLS95S | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 8 hours and 53 minutes + EPUB | 246 Mb
The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. Dr. Hachiya’s compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who was a surgical consultant to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission and who became a friend of Dr. Hachiya. In a new foreword, John Dower reflects on the enduring importance of the diary 50 years after the bombing.