Nagasaki - The Last Witnesses

The second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War. On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. Then, just three days later, when Japan showed no sign of surrender, the United States took aim at Nagasaki. Rendered in harrowing detail, this historical narrative is the second and final volume in M. G. Sheftall’s series Embers. Sheftall has spent years personally interviewing The result is an intimate, firsthand account of life in Nagasaki, and the story of incomprehensible devastation and resilience in the aftermath of the second atomic bomb drop. This blow-by-blow account takes us from the city streets, as word of the attack on Hiroshima reaches civilians, to the cockpit of Bockscar, when Charles Sweeney dropped “Fat Man," to the interminable six days while the world waited to see if Japan would surrender to the Allies--or if more bombs would fall.

Product details

• Authors: M G Sheftall, M. G. Sheftall
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.08.2025
• EAN: 9780593472286
• ISBN: 978-0-593-47228-6
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Embers
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Asian History, Nuclear weapons, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General