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The PoWs who survived Nagasaki
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:30:21
Publish Date: 2023-01-18 00:00:59
Description:

The Japanese city of Nagasaki is probably best known for being the target of the world’s second-ever nuclear attack in August 1945. Yet the city was also home to hundreds of Allied prisoners of war, forcibly put to work to support the Japanese war economy. In conversation with Spencer Mizen, John Willis shares the incredible – and largely forgotten – story of the PoWs who had survived the brutal camps of the far east, were transported to the Japanese mainland on so-called hell-ships and were later witnesses to a bomb that would help bring the Second World War to a conclusion.

(Ad) John Willis is the author of Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners (Mensch Publishing, 2022). Buy it now from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nagasaki-Forgotten-Prisoners-John-Willis/dp/1912914425/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty


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