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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
This courageous memoir, penned in one of the last few years of the author's life, is an excellent perspective on the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Especially since Nagasaki is the lesser-known of the two Japanese cities that were victimized by the atomic bomb, I'd recommend this book to anyone who wants to be educated about the events. Nagai was a doctor, scientist, and avid researcher, so he is able to explain the thinking of WWII citizens of Japan very well. His dispassioned analysis allows the reader's emotions to swell up and fill the void, while still reading between the lines to see Nagai's own grief and eventual acceptance. Four stars instead of five because the last third of the book gets a little too abstract and religious, which doesn't seem to mesh with the main section.