The Day of the Bomb

Infobox Book
name = The Day of the Bomb
title_orig = "Sadako Will Leben"
translator = Frances Lobb


image_caption = The Day of the Bomb
author = Karl Bruckner
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country = Austria
language = translated into English from German,
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genre = Non-fiction novel
publisher = Van Nostrand
release_date = 1961 in German, 1962 in English
media_type = book
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"The Day of the Bomb" (in German "Sadako Will Leben", meaning "Sadako Wants to Live") is a non-fiction book written by the Austrian author Karl Bruckner in 1961.

The story is about a Japanese girl, Sadako Sasaki who lived in Hiroshima and died of illnesses caused by atomic-bomb radiation.

The book was translated into most major languages, published on the world wide web, and is often used as material for peace education in schools around the world.

ee also

*Sadako Sasaki
*Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
*Children's Peace Monument
*"Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" - 1977

External links

* [http://www.studentshelp.de/p/referate/02/5720.htm Bruckner, Karl: Sadako will leben] de icon
* [http://www.buchklub.at/magazine/gorilla/sadako/ct_sadako.htm SADAKO SASAKI] de icon
* [http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/sadako/index.html Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes]