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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 hibakushathe Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors. These last living witnesses are the only people who can still provide us with reliable and detailed testimony about life in their cities before the use of nuclear weaponry. Sheftall stands out among historians due to his fluency in spoken and written Japanese, and his longtime immersion in Japanese society that has allowed him, a white American, the unheard-of access to these atomic bomb survivors. The result is an intimate, first-hand account of life in Nagasaki, and 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.
M.G. Sheftall has lived in Japan since 1987. He has a PhD in international relations/modern Japanese history awarded by Waseda University in Tokyo. 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.
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 hibakushathe Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors. These last living witnesses are the only people who can still provide us with reliable and detailed testimony about life in their cities before the use of nuclear weaponry. Sheftall stands out among historians due to his fluency in spoken and written Japanese, and his longtime immersion in Japanese society that has allowed him, a white American, the unheard-of access to these atomic bomb survivors. The result is an intimate, first-hand account of life in Nagasaki, and 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.
M.G. Sheftall has lived in Japan since 1987. He has a PhD in international relations/modern Japanese history awarded by Waseda University in Tokyo. 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.
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Published 2025-08-05 by Dutton Hardcover |