Read Hiroshima

The Air Corps officers who believed precision bombing could win a war humanely, and Curtis LeMay burning Tokyo instead.

The Peace Park and the hypocentre, plus Dejima, the island where Japan traded with the world for 200 years.

Anne Frank in the Amsterdam annex from 1942 to 1944.

Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.

Visit Hiroshima, a city of peace and resilience in western Japan. See the Atomic Bomb Dome (UNESCO World Heritage site preserved as a memorial), explore the Peace Memorial Museum (powerful exhibits on the 1945 atomic bombing and its aftermath), and take a ferry to Miyajima Island to see the iconic Itsukushima Shrine with its 'floating' torii gate. Also try local specialties like okonomiyaki (savory pancake) and oysters from the Seto Inland Sea.

Kapuscinski's forty years reporting Africa, from Ghana's independence to Rwanda.

Haile Selassie's court told by its servants; Kapuscinski on power anywhere.

Voices of the liquidators, widows and resettled villagers; Alexievich's Nobel oral history.