Nagasaki (eBook)

The Massacre of the Innocent and the Unknowing

Craig Collie (Autor)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
352 Seiten
Granta Publications (Verlag)
978-1-84627-443-5 (ISBN)

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Documentary filmmaker and published historian Craig Corrie set about reconstructing precisely what happened on those few days in August 1945 which brought World War Two to an end. He interviewed elderly survivors of the Nagasaki blast, and descendants of victims, and he has stitched together those interviews with eyewitness testimony, diaries and journals, and official documents - Japanese, American, British and Australian. He provides a gripping, as-it-happened account of the decision-making, the confusion, the politicking, the denials, and, above all, the devastation and disorientation.

We follow ordinary Japanese in the hours after the blast: a doctor and nurses heroically save many lives, a pair of incredibly lucky unlucky fellows who survived the Hiroshima blast only to return to their hometown in time to survive a second atomic bomb, and many more who are dazed, whose families are destroyed, whose sense of belonging is decimated. Within a few days of the blast, 80,000 Nagasaki residents were dead, half of them instantly at the moment the bomb struck. Their loss and their pain, and that of those who survived, are honoured at last in this unprecedented book.

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The events of a few days in August 1945 brought WWII to an end. They also destroyed the city of Nagasaki and killed 80,000 of its inhabitants, half of them instantly. Craig Collie is the first person to interview elderly survivors and descendants of the victims, and to stitch together their recollections with contemporary diaries and letters, and details from official documents. The result is a unique, unprecedented work of narrative reconstruction that follows ordinary Japanese in the hours after the blast to provide a gripping account of the decision-making, the denials, the devastation and the loss.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.8.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-84627-443-5 / 1846274435
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84627-443-5 / 9781846274435