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Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
Nakazawa, Keiji; Paul, Paula J. (foreword)
Book
1989
Barefoot Gen is the powerful, tragic story of the bombing of Hiroshima seen through the eyes of a young boy - the artist himself - growing up in a peace-loving Japanese family. It is a graphic 'lest ...
Barefoot Gen The Day After: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
Nakazawa, Keiji
Book
1989
The acclaimed Barefoot Gen story picks up the day after the bombing of Hiroshima as the Gen family encounters the effects of the bomb, hunger, the hardened hearts of those more fortunate than themselv...
A Marxist History of the World part 88: The Second World War
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2012
With the great powers fighting to defend their empires, the Second World War would re-divide the world between competing blocs of capitalists.
A Marxist History of the World part 89: 1941-1945: barbarism in a world gone mad
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2012
The Second World War was characterised by primeval savagery. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Militarist Japan waged war with unprecedented brutality, but the ‘democracies’ also committed terrible w...
A Marxist History of the World part 90: The Second World War: resistance
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Large parts of Occupied Europe were liberated by local resistance movements. But the potential for a revolutionary transformation was smothered at birth.