ISBN No. (978-0143109426) (9780143109426)
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“Nagasaki illuminates an absence in our own history. Far beyond a reductionist argument about whether to use nuclear weapons, this is a profound inquiry into the extremes of human violence and what it does to both victim and victimizer. It is essential reading in our hyper-violent time.” —Ruben Martinez, finalist judge, 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
“Scrupulous, passionate, and compassionate history at its very best.” —John W. Dower, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
“Magnificent and necessary… Reading [Nagasaki] is a powerful way to engage with the moral conundrums surrounding our country’s use of atomic weapons…. Let us hope that many will read this important book.”—Los Angeles Times
“Nagasaki is a devastating read that highlights man’s capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse of all that is best about people.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“An intimate chronicle of individual lives: like a good documentary film-maker, Southard allows her subjects, with all their attractive and quirky qualities, to speak for themselves.”—Financial Times
“Beautifully written, weaving history and story.”—Sharman Apt Russell, author of Hunger: An Unnatural History
“Thoughtful and deeply affecting…A damning indictment of nuclear weapons and an inspiring reminder that some people prevail, even in the face of impossible odds.”—The Christian Science Monitor
“Southard’s vivid stories of five Nagasaki survivors powerfully illustrates the second atomic bombing and seventy years of life in the nuclear age. This book is the most extraordinary account ever written by an American author.”—Dr. Tomonaga Masao, former Director of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital
“[Nagasaki] provides the material and personal stories of one of the darkest days in human history…. One of the definitive histories of the end of World War II. Essential.”—Library Journal, starred review
“The merits of Southard’s book are clear. It was bad enough for the Americans to have killed so many people, and then hide the gruesome facts for many years after the war. To forget about the massacre now would be an added insult to the victims. Southard has helped to make sure this will not happen yet.”—New York Times Book Review
“American politicians debating the nuclear deal with Iran would do well to spend some time with Southard’s Nagasaki. It does not tell us what to do. It only reminds us of the stakes.”—Washington Post
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