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- Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
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. 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. 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.
Table of Contents
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- Foreword to the 1995 Edition
- pp. v-xvii
- The Place and the People
- pp. xxiii-xxv
- 6 August 1945
- pp. 1-9
- 7 August 1945
- pp. 9-16
- 8 August 1945
- pp. 16-34
- 9 August 1945
- pp. 34-40
- 10 August 1945
- pp. 40-46
- 11 August 1945
- pp. 46-55
- 12 August 1945
- pp. 55-64
- 13 August 1945
- pp. 64-71
- 14 August 1945
- pp. 71-80
- 15 August 1945
- pp. 80-84
- 16 August 1945
- pp. 85-87
- 17 August 1945
- pp. 88-90
- 18 August 1945
- pp. 91-94
- 19 August 1945
- pp. 95-98
- 20 August 1945
- pp. 99-100
- 21 August 1945
- pp. 100-103
- 22 August 1945
- pp. 104-109
- 23 August 1945
- pp. 110-114
- 24 August 1945
- pp. 114-117
- 25 August 1945
- pp. 117-120
- 26 August 1945
- pp. 121-125
- 27 August 1945
- pp. 126-130
- 28 August 1945
- pp. 131-136
- 29 August 1945
- pp. 137-141
- 30 August 1945
- pp. 141-145
- 31 August 1945
- pp. 145-149
- 1 September 1945
- pp. 149-154
- 2 September 1945
- pp. 154-156
- 3 September 1945
- pp. 156-165
- 4 September 1945
- pp. 165-166
- 5 September 1945
- pp. 167-168
- 6 September 1945
- p. 168
- 7 September 1945
- p. 169
- 8 September 1945
- pp. 170-174
- 9 September 1945
- pp. 170-174
- 10 September 1945
- pp. 174-176
- 11 September 1945
- pp. 176-178
- 12 September 1945
- pp. 179-181
- 13 September 1945
- pp. 181-186
- 14 September 1945
- pp. 186-189
- 15 September 1945
- pp. 190-193
- 16 September 1945
- pp. 194-197
- 17 September 1945
- pp. 197-201
- 18 September 1945
- pp. 201-202
- 19 September 1945
- pp. 203-208
- 20 September 1945
- pp. 208-211
- 21 September 1945
- pp. 211-213
- 22 September 1945
- pp. 214-215
- 23 September 1945
- pp. 215-217
- 24 September 1945
- pp. 218-219
- 25 September 1945
- p. 220
- 26 September 1945
- p. 220
- 27 September 1945
- p. 221
- 28 September 1945
- pp. 221-224
- 29 September 1945
- pp. 224-226
- 30 September 1945
- pp. 226-229
- Postscript
- pp. 231-233
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469602462
Related ISBN(s)
9780807845479, 9780807873557
MARC Record
OCLC
966766586
Pages
266
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No