| ISBN |
9781800961500 (paperback) |
| Name |
Hachiya, Michihiko, 1903-1980 author. |
| Uniform title |
Hiroshima nikki. English |
| Title |
The Doctor of Hiroshima : his heart-breaking and inspiring true-life story : from hell-on-Earth, one man found hope against all the odds / Dr Michihiko Hachiya ; [forewords by John W. Dower and Warner Wells ; translated by Warner Wells]. |
| Published |
London : Monoray, 2024. |
| ©1983 |
| Description |
xix, 268 pages ; 22 cm |
| Notes |
"This book was originally published as 'Hiroshima Diary: the journal of a Japanese physician' in 1955, with new editions in 1983 and 1995"--Title page verso. |
| "In this edition, a small number of minor amends have been made to the text and the two forewords by Warner Wells and John W. Dower are abridged"--Title page verso. |
| Contents |
Foreword by John W. Dower -- Foreword by Warner Wells -- The place and the people -- Hiroshima Diary -- Postscript -- Endnotes. |
| Summary |
The Doctor of Hiroshimais the extraordinary true story of Dr Michihiko Hachiya, whose hospital was less than a mile from the centre of the atomic bomb that hit on that warm August day. In immense shock and pain, he and his wife Yaeko dragged themselves to the devastated hospital building and what colleagues they could find. In time, they begin to heal, and start to treat the impossible numbers of patients - a small girl covered in burns, an elderly man with pneumonia, a young boy and his little sister looking for their parents. They also began to investigate the strange unexplainable symptoms afflicting his patients - things he never dreamed he would see. Told simply and poignantly in Dr Hachiya's own words, The Doctor of Hiroshima is a unique and deeply moving human story of survival about a small, committed band of hospital staff in the face of unthinkable destruction and loss. |
| Language note |
In English, translated from the Japanese. |
| Subjects |
Hachiya, Michihiko, -- 1903-1980 -- Diaries |
| Physicians -- Japan -- Diaries |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi |
| Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect |
| Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 |
| Genre |
Diaries |
| Personal narratives |
| Other Names |
Dower, John W. writer of foreword. |
| Wells, Warner, 1913-1991 translator, writer of foreword. |
| Added titles |
Hiroshima diary. |
| Reservations Queue |
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