Hiroshima: Three Witnesses

"I'll search you out, put my lips to your tender ear, and tell you. . . . I'll tell you the real story—I swear I will."—from Little One by Toge Sankichi


Three Japanese authors of note—Hara Tamiki, Ota Yoko, and Toge Sankichi—survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima only to shoulder an appalling burden: bearing witness to ultimate horror. Between 1945 and 1952, in prose and in poetry, they published the premier first-person accounts of the atomic holocaust. Forty-five years have passed since...