Peter Wuden's Day One: Before Hiroshima and After (1984) tells the story of the making of the atomic bomb, the decision by President Harry Truman to use it in 1945, and the effects the bomb had on Hiroshima. The book includes maps and photographs.

Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (1970), by John Toland, is a history of Japan and its wars during the years covered by A Boy Called H. Toland views the events largely from the Japanese perspective.

Diary of Darkness: The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi, translated by Eugene Soviak and Kamiyama Tamie (1998), is a diary kept by a liberal journalist in Japan from 1942 to 1945. He records his opposition, which he could not express openly, to the rampant Japanese nationalism and bureaucratic control of every aspect of life. He also notes Japan's descent into poverty...