Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima won the 1969 National Book Award in Science. In Japan, "hibakusha" means "the people affected by the explosion" — specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. He sees this analysis as providing a last chance to understand — and be motivated to avoid — nuclear war.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9780807882894
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Atomic bomb survivorsPsychological traumaHiroshima
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1969)
Other awarded books from Robert Jay Lifton
- The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
- Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans—Neither Victims nor Executioners
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