{"product_id":"nagasaki-the-last-witnesses-hardcover","title":"Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eM. G. Sheftall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series \u003cb\u003ebased on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about\u003c\/b\u003e each of the atomic bomb drops, \u003cb\u003efirst in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, \u003c\/b\u003e that hastened the end of the Pacific War.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRendered 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 \u003ci\u003ehibakusha\u003c\/i\u003e--the Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors. These last living witnesses are a vanishing memory resource, the only people who can still provide us with reliable and detailed testimony about life in their cities before the use of nuclear weaponry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. G. Sheftall \u003c\/b\u003ehas lived in Japan since 1987. He has a PhD in international relations\/modern Japanese history awarded by Waseda University in Tokyo, which is the most highly regarded private university in Japan. Since 2001, he has been a professor of modern Japanese cultural history and communication at the Faculty of Informatics of Shizuoka University, which is an institution in the Japanese national university system. Sheftall is married, with two adult sons, and makes his home in Hamamatsu, Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.57 x 9.18 x 6.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52637560504627,"sku":"9780593472286","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/r0Ix4Vy1vs9780593472286.webp?v=1762293215","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/nagasaki-the-last-witnesses-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}