The Hiroshima Maidens: A Story of Courage, Compassion, and Survival
Language: English
Atomic Bomb Atomic Bomb Victims Biography Bombardment; 1945 Hiroshima-Shi Hiroshima-Shi (Japan) History Japan Medical care Military Nuclear Warfare Personal narratives Physiological Effect United States World War II World War; 1939-1945
Publisher: Viking
Published: Aug 1, 1985
Description:
In the mid 1950s, a group of young Japanese women who had been grotesquely disfigured in the atomic holocaust of Hiroshima were taken to the United States for plastic surgery. Focusing on three of the Hiroshima Maidens, but drawing on the experiences if all of them, Rodney Baker follows theses women from the terrifying moment of the bomb blast, to their not always idyllic stay in America; and he traces their lives since- some tragic, some heroic, some affectingly ordinary.