Hiroshima diary : the journal of a Japanese physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 / by Michihiko Hachiya ; translated & edited by Warner Wells ; with a new foreword by John W. Dower.
Publication Info.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
First copyrighted in 1955 by the University of North Carolina Press. Copyright renewed 1983 by Warner Wells. Foreword by John W. Dower @1995 by the University of North Carolina Press.
This reprint does not include the endpaper maps of the 1955 hardcover edition.
Includes glossary of Japanese terms.
Summary
The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Despite his enormous responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. His 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 fifty years after the bombing.
