Nagasaki : the forgotten prisoners
Willis, John, 1946-2022
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At 11.02 am on an August morning in 1945 America dropped the world's most powerful atomic bomb on the Japanese port city of Nagasaki. The most European city in Japan was flattened to the ground 'as if it had been swept aside by a broom'. More than 70,000 Japanese were killed. At the time, hundreds of Allied prisoners of war were working close to the bomb's detonation point, as forced labourers in the shipyards and foundries of Nagasaki. These men, from the Dales of Yorkshire and the dusty outback of Australia, from the fields of Holland and the remote towns of Texas, had already endured an extraordinary lottery of life and death that had changed their lives forever. In one of the greatest survival stories of World War Two, we trace their astonishing experiences back to bloody battles in the Malayan jungle, before the dramatic fall of Fortress Singapore, the mighty symbol of the British Empire.
Main title:
Nagasaki : the forgotten prisoners / John Willis.
Author:
Willis, John, 1946-, author
Imprint:
London : Mensch Publishing, 2022.
Collation:
384 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781912914425 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.542522440922940.542522
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3283807