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Beschreibung

A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki - and the acts of human kindness it left in its wake.

On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them.

Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once the city's university hospital, Takashi bundles together a tattered group of survivors. Doctors, nurses, students, each with their own injuries and losses, their own bone-chilling fears for the future, they work tirelessly at the impossible task of aiding the countless wounded and easing the deaths of the dying. They remain determined to heal their fallen city, to find solace and hope among the rubble, even as a strange and growing sickness begins to claim them, one by one.

Eyewitness to one of the most fatal events in human history, this is Takashi's record, written from his sickbed - a chilling historical document, and undeniable evidence of the capacity for human kindness.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM RICHARD LLOYD PARRY

'A book that everyone should read' The Times

A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki - and the acts of human kindness it left in its wake.

On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them.

Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once the city's university hospital, Takashi bundles together a tattered group of survivors. Doctors, nurses, students, each with their own injuries and losses, their own bone-chilling fears for the future, they work tirelessly at the impossible task of aiding the countless wounded and easing the deaths of the dying. They remain determined to heal their fallen city, to find solace and hope among the rubble, even as a strange and growing sickness begins to claim them, one by one.

Eyewitness to one of the most fatal events in human history, this is Takashi's record, written from his sickbed - a chilling historical document, and undeniable evidence of the capacity for human kindness.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM RICHARD LLOYD PARRY

'A book that everyone should read' The Times

Über den Autor
Takashi Nagai
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Vintage Classics
ISBN-13: 9781529952605
ISBN-10: 1529952603
Sprache: Englisch
Originalsprache: Japanisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Nagai, Takashi
Übersetzung: Johnston, William
Hersteller: Random House UK Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 201 x 133 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Takashi Nagai
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2025
Gewicht: 0,262 kg
Artikel-ID: 133714053

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