Michihiko Hachiya

LoveReading Says About Press Reviews Author LoveReading Says At times harrowing, and always incredibly humbling, Dr Michihiko Hachiya’s autobiographical account of the immeasurable pain and devastation that came in the wake of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima tells an extraordinary story of survival. “The hour was early; the morning still, warm, and beautiful.

With the necessary gravitas, Robertson Dean recounts Hachiya's work during one of the greatest, and most fearsome, moments in human history. Dean's measured tone is full of raw emotion as he describes the strenuous first months following the atomic bomb drop on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, which effectively ended WWII.

In the near-complete devastation of Hiroshima by an atomic bomb, only modern reinforced concrete buildings remained standing. U.S. Air Force/National Archives Michihiko Hachiya Personal observations of the world’s first atomic bombing Dr. Hachiya was at home and awake early on a morning that was “still, warm, and beautiful,” as he wrote in the daily diary he kept.