The Bells of Nagasaki - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Vintage ClassicsISBN-13:9781529952605ISBN-10:1529952603UPC:9781529952605Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Military, AsiaBook Topic:Nuclear Warfare, JapanProduct ID:SCS4XBDS98
The Bells of Nagasaki
'A book that everyone should read' The Times A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki - and the acts of human kindness left in its wake. On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them. Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Vintage ClassicsISBN-13:9781529952605ISBN-10:1529952603UPC:9781529952605Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Military, AsiaBook Topic:Nuclear Warfare, JapanProduct ID:SCS4XBDS98
Takashi Nagai was a Japanese Catholic physician specializing in radiology, an author, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. His subsequent life of prayer and service earned him the affectionate title 'The saint of Nagasaki'. He died in 1951 from leukaemia. William Johnston was born in 1925 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He joined the Jesuit Order in 1943 and after completing his...
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