Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6–September 30, 1945

Hachiya was directing the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the atomic bomb fell. His day-by-day record puts you alongside a doctor trying to care for patients amid damage he and his colleagues are still learning to understand. Follow their changing understanding from the day of the bombing through the end of September. Warner Wells translated and edited the diary, and this edition has a foreword by John W. Dower.