Doctor at Nagasaki

by Masao Shiotsuki

This is an invaluable firsthand account of a young Japanese doctor’s harrowing experiences treating atomic bomb victims immediately after the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The book recounts the author’s struggle to prolong the lives of patients suffering from massive burns, other injuries, and radiation sickness.

191 pp. 4.3 x 6.8 in.