This book was originally published over forty years ago and followed the events and aftermath of the bombing on different survivors, two doctors, a secretary, a tailor's widow with children, a German priest, and a Methodist minister. The book was reissued in 1989 with an added final chapter about what had happened to those survivors in the subsequent 40 years. This is not a sensationalized account but told in a very factual, straightforward way from the accounts of the survivors. Yes, there are gory details and it amazes me that one of the women survived the massive infection in her broken leg. The horrors of the bombing were compounded by the fact that over 70% of the doctors and other medical personnel in the city were killed or severely injured in the initial blast. Interesting and heartbreaking.
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