Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician?s Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

Duke University Press Books, 1995. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 182 pages. Signed by author on title page , " To Mitchell Covell MD. PAX James N. Yamazaki December 6, 1996." This also includes a letter from Dr. Yamazaki to Dr Covell dated 12/6/96, "Looking forward to meeting you on Tuesday... etc...and signed again, James Yamazaki." The book and DJ are in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight. Red spine/White text. "Children of the Atomic Bomb is Dr. Yamazaki’s account of a lifelong effort to understand and document the impact of nuclear explosions on children, particularly the children conceived but not yet born at the time of the explosions. Assigned in 1949 as Physician-in-Charge of the United States Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Nagasaki, Yamazaki had served as a combat surgeon at the Battle of the Bulge where he had been captured and held as a prisoner of war by the Germans. In Japan he was confronted with violence of another dimension the devastating impact of a nuclear blast and the particularly insidious effects of radiation on children.". Signed. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. History Japan.