Read this a couple of weeks ago: Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
https://www.amazon.com/Hiroshima-Diary-Japanese-Physician-6-September/dp/0807845477
A fascinating, first person account by a hospital administrator/physician, about what life was like from moments just before Little Boy exploded over Hiroshima, to a couple of months of aftermath.
Book is not only an insight into Japanese culture/state of mind on August 6, 1945, but also has a lot of prepper value: Social breakdown in an otherwise very law abiding society, basic survival issues in a destroyed urban environment (they had one of the worst typhoons on record only six weeks after the bomb), and a lot of medical discussion of the effects of radiation, by doctors who couldn't make sense of what was killing their patients (and many of the staff). All of this in the shell of a burnt out hospital, with no electricity, no windows, no roof, rudimentary equipment, no working sanitation system, and almost non-existent supplies.
https://www.amazon.com/Hiroshima-Diary-Japanese-Physician-6-September/dp/0807845477
A fascinating, first person account by a hospital administrator/physician, about what life was like from moments just before Little Boy exploded over Hiroshima, to a couple of months of aftermath.
Book is not only an insight into Japanese culture/state of mind on August 6, 1945, but also has a lot of prepper value: Social breakdown in an otherwise very law abiding society, basic survival issues in a destroyed urban environment (they had one of the worst typhoons on record only six weeks after the bomb), and a lot of medical discussion of the effects of radiation, by doctors who couldn't make sense of what was killing their patients (and many of the staff). All of this in the shell of a burnt out hospital, with no electricity, no windows, no roof, rudimentary equipment, no working sanitation system, and almost non-existent supplies.