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First into Nagasaki : the censored eyewitness dispatches on post-atomic Japan and its prisoners of war Cover Image Book

First into Nagasaki : the censored eyewitness dispatches on post-atomic Japan and its prisoners of war

Weller, George 1907-2002 (Author). 4aCronkite, Walter (writer of foreword.). Weller, Anthony 1957- (editor,, author.).

Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Weller covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At war's end, correspondents were forbidden to enter Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but Weller, presenting himself as a U.S. colonel, set out to explore the devastation. As Nagasaki's first outside observer, he witnessed the bomb's effects. He interviewed doctors trying to cure those dying mysteriously from "Disease X." He sent his forbidden dispatches back to MacArthur's censors, assuming their importance would make them unstoppable. He was wrong: the U.S. government censored every word, and the dispatches vanished from history. Weller also became the first to enter nearby POW camps. He gathered accounts from hundreds of Allied prisoners--but those too were silenced. Weller died in 2002, believing it all lost forever. Months later, his son found a fragile copy in a crate of moldy papers. This historic body of work has never been published.--From publisher description.

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  • ISBN: 0307342018
  • ISBN: 9780307342010
  • Physical Description: print
    x, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2006]

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Prisoners of war Japan
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Nagasaki-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945

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