Hiroshima, 8:15 : The Lost Memoir
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1529992737
ISBN-13
9781529992731
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Imprint
Ebury Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 6th, 2026
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
338 grams
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22.30 x 14.50 x 2.20 cms
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Hiroshimac 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period)HistoryHistory
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A newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivors—a lost classic that brings unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-changing event.
The whole city was covered with dark clouds, and conflagrations were breaking out in various directions. Could all of this have happened at once? It was then that black drops of rain, as big as blackberries, began to fall – rain caused by the atomic bomb. I wondered what had happened to my home and church. With a pale face, I ran down the Koi highway…
When the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima at 8.15am on 6 August 1945, Methodist minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto was just beginning his day by helping a neighbour on the outskirts of the city. Unbeknownst to him at that moment, the events that awaited him over the following days and weeks were full of horror, but through his courageous determination to save his family, church and city from total devastation, Tanimoto would become internationally recognised as a hero of Hiroshima. In 1946, he featured in American journalist John Hersey’s seminal book Hiroshima which catapulted Tanimoto into global fame – but it is only now that we have discovered the manuscript that he wrote in his own words.
With a powerful introduction from Tanimoto''s daughter, Koko Kondo, a renowned peace activist in her own right, Hiroshima, 8:15 is a remarkable eyewitness account of this devastating moment of history. Written in the immediate aftermath of the bomb, the manuscript had been lost for many decades and was only recently discovered in a university archive.
Today, over eighty years later in a world fraught with conflict, Tanimoto’s story is a moving and powerful reminder of how the strength, love and resilience of the human spirit will always triumph over the things that divide us.
PRAISE FOR HIROSHIMA, 8:15
"We have apparently spent eighty years forgetting what atomic warfare actually looks like. This intensely moving book is also an unsparing chronicle of the reality of mass destruction. Pray God it will restore some sense of urgency to our commitment to a nuclear-free world." — Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
“A stunning historical discovery and a heartrending testimony.” — Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of American Prometheus, the book behind Christopher Nolan''s Oppenheimer
"More urgent today than at any time since the end of the Cold War.” — Serhii Plokhy, author of The Nuclear Age and Chernobyl
"A rare and important addition to history." — Susan Southard, author of Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
The whole city was covered with dark clouds, and conflagrations were breaking out in various directions. Could all of this have happened at once? It was then that black drops of rain, as big as blackberries, began to fall – rain caused by the atomic bomb. I wondered what had happened to my home and church. With a pale face, I ran down the Koi highway…
When the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima at 8.15am on 6 August 1945, Methodist minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto was just beginning his day by helping a neighbour on the outskirts of the city. Unbeknownst to him at that moment, the events that awaited him over the following days and weeks were full of horror, but through his courageous determination to save his family, church and city from total devastation, Tanimoto would become internationally recognised as a hero of Hiroshima. In 1946, he featured in American journalist John Hersey’s seminal book Hiroshima which catapulted Tanimoto into global fame – but it is only now that we have discovered the manuscript that he wrote in his own words.
With a powerful introduction from Tanimoto''s daughter, Koko Kondo, a renowned peace activist in her own right, Hiroshima, 8:15 is a remarkable eyewitness account of this devastating moment of history. Written in the immediate aftermath of the bomb, the manuscript had been lost for many decades and was only recently discovered in a university archive.
Today, over eighty years later in a world fraught with conflict, Tanimoto’s story is a moving and powerful reminder of how the strength, love and resilience of the human spirit will always triumph over the things that divide us.
PRAISE FOR HIROSHIMA, 8:15
"We have apparently spent eighty years forgetting what atomic warfare actually looks like. This intensely moving book is also an unsparing chronicle of the reality of mass destruction. Pray God it will restore some sense of urgency to our commitment to a nuclear-free world." — Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
“A stunning historical discovery and a heartrending testimony.” — Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of American Prometheus, the book behind Christopher Nolan''s Oppenheimer
"More urgent today than at any time since the end of the Cold War.” — Serhii Plokhy, author of The Nuclear Age and Chernobyl
"A rare and important addition to history." — Susan Southard, author of Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
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