The Bells of Nagasaki
$35.99
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
25 November 2025
Summary
A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki - and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.
On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them.
Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once the city’s university hospital, Takashi bundles together a tattered group of survivors. Doctors, nurses, students, each with t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529952605 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529952603 |
| Author: | Takashi Nagai, William Johnston, Richard Lloyd Parry |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 25 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 262g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 136mm x 20mm |
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What They're Saying
Critics Review
A book that everyone should read * The Times *
A vivid first-hand account of the nuclear destruction of Nagasaki…. The testament of one of the most remarkable men in post-war Japan * Bloomsbury Review *
The Bells of Nagasaki evoked an extraordinarily deep response in the hearts of the Japanese people… [they] rediscovered in this book something that had long lain buried under war - love! – Shusaku Endo, author of Silence
A crushing reminder of the obscenity of nuclear war… Few could read The Bells of Nagasaki today and not tremble at the thought of another nuclear conflict * Daily Telegraph *
Nagai’s book is the moving testament of a thoughtful man who attempted to find a way to reconcile the quest for scientific truth with spiritual approaches to the human condition * Times Literary Supplement *
About The Author
Takashi Nagai
Takashi Nagai was a Japanese Catholic physician specializing in radiology, an author, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. His subsequent life of prayer and service earned him the affectionate title ‘The saint of Nagasaki’. He died in 1951 from leukaemia.
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