Witness to an extreme century: a memoir

section 1. The decision

Method and research

Finding a mentor

Finding a voice

with help from friends

Further struggles with totalism

section 2. "Hiroshima had disappeared"

Getting to Hiroshima

The visceral immersion

Entrapment by the bomb

Dr. Hiroshima

section 3. Vietnam and the sixties

Responding to slaughter

Existential evil

"The sixties"

Home from the war

section 4. Nazi doctors

did it really happen?

Strong enough stomach?

Sitting down with Nazi doctors

Historical encounters

The infernal chorus

section 5. Next steps

Coming home

Full circle.