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Hiroshima Diary

The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945

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Hiroshima Diary

Written by: Michihiko Hachiya MD
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. Dr. Hachiya's compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who was a surgical consultant to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission and who became a friend of Dr. Hachiya. In a new foreword, John Dower reflects on the enduring importance of the diary 50 years after the bombing.

©1983, 1995 The University of North Carolina Press. Foreword by John W. Dower by the University of North Carolina Press. (P)2014 Tantor Asia Historical Medical Memoirs, Diaries & Correspondence Military Professionals & Academics Wars & Conflicts Weapons & Warfare World War II

Critic Reviews

"An extraordinary literary event." ( The New York Times)
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no words could describe the emotions. but this book has done it's part and conveyed those after math of the bombing

heart felt

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An accurate account of the period immediately after the bomb. The medical details covered with certain lucidity and gives an idea of the suffering with compassion but not unnecessary drama

Well documented

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