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Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners
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Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners

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This is one of the most remarkable untold stories of the Second World war. 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. They had lived through nearly four years of malnutrition, disease, and brutality. Now their prison home was the target of America's second atomic bomb.

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. This abject capitulation was followed by surrender in Java and elsewhere in the East, condemning the captives to years of cruel imprisonment by the Japanese.

Their lives grew evermore perilous when thousands of prisoners were shipped off to build the infamous Thai-Burma Railway, including the Bridge on the River Kwai. If that was not harsh enough, POWs were then transported to Japan in the overcrowded holds of what were called hell ships. These rusty buckets were regularly sunk by Allied submarines, and thousands of prisoners lived through unimaginable horror, adrift on the ocean for days. Some still had to endure the final supreme test, the world's second atomic bomb.

The prisoners in Nagasaki were eyewitnesses to one of the most significant events in modern history but writing notes or diaries in a Japanese prison camp was dangerous. To avoid detection, one Allied prisoner buried his notes in the grave of a fellow POW to be reclaimed after the war, another wrote his diary in Irish. Now, using unpublished and rarely seen notes, interviews, and memoirs, this unique book weaves together a powerful chorus of voices to paint a vivid picture of defeat, endurance, and survival against astonishing odds.

The bomb was nicknamed Fat Man, and when it was detonated over Nagasaki, Yorkshireman Ron Bryer of the RAF saw 'a tremendous violet, white, blue flash, almost liquid in its intensity, ' before being knocked unconscious. His dramatic survival in Nagasaki and escape to freedom is at the centre of the book. Yet, for all the horrors the men faced in the Far East, this is also a narrative of hope. The prisoners found comfort in theatre and cabaret, in sport and art, and in religion and friendship. Some like Ron Bryer even returned to Nagasaki to make sense of the extraordinary events they had witnessed.

When they finally returned home, prisoners who had experienced so many horrors now had to survive the peace, despite many bodies and minds being damaged. With the war in Europe already over, returning prisoners from the Japanese.

Empire were an afterthought, an embarrassment. It was their wives and families that pulled them through to normality, supported by the friends and comrades who had also lived through four years of hell. They shared a common narrative; they had been part of the most remarkable survival story of the Second World War.

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