Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham

Author:Paul Ham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

From the surrounding hills the escapees looked back at the ‘jellyfish cloud’, billowing out to east and west, emitting a fierce light in ‘ever-changing shades’ of red, purple, blue and green. Its head loomed over the city ‘as though waiting to pounce’: ‘Hey, you monster of a cloud!’ screamed one woman, her arms shooing it away: ‘Go away! We’re civilians! Do you hear – go away!’

On the ground the scattered fires merged into a firestorm, which, whipped up by the winds, consumed what was left of the city. The remains of wood-and-paper homes were powerful kindling to the conflagration, which devoured the spot fires and leaped across firebreaks – as it had done in other cities – hurling out long, burning ropes of flame that seemed to haul the furnace forward. The firestorm blacked out the sun for the second time that day and burned for about four hours. Thousands still trapped in the rubble expired in the flames.

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