Barefoot Gen, Vol 1 - The Day after (Paperback)

Available exclusively from Last Gasp Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was 7 years old and living in Hiroshima in the early days of August 1945 when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the U.S.A. Starting a few months before that event, the four volume saga of young Gen shows life in Japan after years of war and privations. This long story can be compared in scope and intensity to Maus.