Hachiya, Michihiko; Wells, Warner - transl.

Hiroshima diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician August 6 - September 30, 1945 [Confidential Advance Copy]

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1955. Advance Copy. 4to, 211pp, rectos only, reproduced from typescript. Publisher's plain printed wrappers with ownership signature of a George W. Stewart to front cover. Wrappers toned and with a few chips and splits along edges. Very good.

Uncommon proof of this important text, being the first book-length firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing published in the U.S.  Michihiko Hachiya (1903-1980) was the director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital and documented his experiences both as a victim and physician treating countless others suffering from devastating injuries.  His diary was published in Japan years prior, but not translated until Dr. Warner Wells of UNC, who was a surgical consultant to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, took on the project and subsequently became close friends with Hachiya.  

A scarce issue of this enduring humanist document published some 10 years after the bombing.  . Item #8839

Price: $200.00