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{{Short description|1961 non-fiction book written by Karl Bruckner}}

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| name          = The Day of the Bomb
| title_orig    = Sadako Will Leben
| translator    = [[Frances Lobb]]
| image         = File:SadakoWillLeben.jpg
| caption = 1961 edition
| author        = [[Karl Bruckner]]
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| country       = [[Austria]]
| language      = translated into English from German, 
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| genre         = [[Non-fiction book]]
| publisher     = Jungbrunnen
| release_date  = 1961
| english_pub_date = 1962
| media_type    = print
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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 people|Austrian]] author [[Karl Bruckner]] in 1961.

The story is about a Japanese girl named [[Sadako Sasaki]] who lived in [[Hiroshima]] and died of illnesses caused by radiation exposure following the [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|atomic bombing of the city]] in August 1945.

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.

==See also==
{{Portal|Children's literature}}
*[[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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223201946/http://www.studentshelp.de/p/referate/02/5720.htm |date=2010-02-23 }} {{in lang|de}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070213051443/http://www.buchklub.at/magazine/gorilla/sadako/ct_sadako.htm SADAKO SASAKI] {{in lang|de}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Day of the Bomb}}
[[Category:Children's history books]]
[[Category:Austrian children's books]]
[[Category:German-language children's books]]
[[Category:Books about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]]
[[Category:Works about children in war]]
[[Category:1961 children's books]]
[[Category:Children's books set in Japan]]


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