8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 96 pp. August 9 refers to the day in 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A collection of essays and homilies by the author on various topics from Nagasaki to Edith Stein to Medjugorje to the Holocaust. McCarthy is an Eastern Rite priest of the Catholic Church, a lawyer, educator and founder of the Program for the Study and Practice of Christian Nonviolence at Notre Dame and of Pax-Christi-USA. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Light soiling on cover; text pages clean.