Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners Willis John
Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners Willis John This is one of the most remarkable untold stories of the Second World war. The most European city in Japan was flattened to the ground 'as if it had been…
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Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners Willis John
This is one of the most remarkable untold stories of the Second World war. The most European city in Japan was flattened to the ground 'as if it had been swept aside by a broom'. 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.
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. More than 70,000 Japanese were killed. They had lived through nearly four years of malnutrition, disease, and brutality.
Now their prison home was the target of America's