Barefoot Gen Vol. 10: Never Give Up (paperback)Beautiful new softcover edition available now from Last Gasp! Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was seven 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, his ten volume saga shows life in Japan after years of war and privations, as seen through the eyes of seven year old Gen Nakaoka. In the tenth and final volume: The year is 1953.