{"product_id":"the-bells-of-nagasaki-9781529952599","title":"The Bells of Nagasaki","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘A book that everyone should read’ The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki – and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePulling 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 their own losses, their own fears for the future: they work tirelessly at the impossible task of aiding the countless wounded and easing the deaths of those they cannot save. They remain determined to heal their fallen city, even as a strange and growing sickness begins to claim them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEyewitness to one of the most fatal events in human history, this is Takashi’s record, written from his sickbed – a chilling historical document, and undeniable evidence of the capacity for human kindness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM RICHARD LLOYD PARRY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Takashi Nagai\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eJapan, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Autobiography: religious \u0026amp; spiritual, Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance \u0026amp; survival, 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000, Military history, Second World War\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 6 Aug 2026 by Vintage Publishing.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Takashi Nagai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320638513530,"sku":"9781529952599","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781529952599.jpg?v=1790659957","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-bells-of-nagasaki-9781529952599","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}