The first eyewitness account ever published of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, “The End of the World” is a devastating record of the horrors history professor Toyofumi Ogura witnessed in the aftermath of the explosion. Written in the form of imaginary letters to his wife, who died from radiation sickness two weeks after the bombing, describing his experiences was a way for him both to cope with his grief and to try to make sense of the unimaginable death and destruction which had suddenly engulfed his world.
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