Witness the best and the worst of humanity in the The Bells of Nagasaki - the heart-rending
first-hand account of one of the infamous events in historyOn 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 the city's university hospital Takashi bundles together a tattered group of
survivors. Doctors nurses students each with their own injuries and losses their own
bone-chilling fears for the future they work tirelessly at the impossible task of aiding the
countless wounded and easing the deaths of the dying. They remain determined to heal their
fallen city to find solace and hope among the rubble even as a strange and growing sickness
begins to claim them one by one. Eyewitness to one of the most fatal events in human history
this is Takashi's record written from his sickbed - a chilling historical document and
undeniable evidence of the capacity for human kindness. WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM RICHARD LLOYD
PARRY'A book that everyone should read' The Times
