Hiroshima diary
Subtitle: the journal of a Japanese physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
By: by Michihiko Hachiya ; translated & edited by Warner Wells  with a new foreword by John W. Dower.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Hachiya, Michihiko -- Diaries.; Physicians -- Japan -- Diaries.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.; Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narraitves, Japanese.
Work titles: Hiroshima nikki.
Description: 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.