Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses is the second and concluding volume in M.G. Sheftall’s Embers series, an intimate, interview-driven history that layers firsthand testimonies from hibakusha—the survivors of the atomic bombings—to reconstruct the events surrounding the August 9, 1945 attack on Nagasaki and its aftermath. Drawing on years of personal interviews and archival research, the book offers a blow-by-blow account from city streets to the cockpit of Bockscar, and follows the tense days leading to Japan’s surrender