First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War, (Paperback)

from artnking

The POW death ships in first-person clarity Found mouldering in a trunk 50 years later, these dispatches tell riveting stories. The Nagasaki stories make up the first part of the book, but the really gripping stories are later in the book, when George interviews surviving POW's in Japan and write...

from aemurray

I read this book because my husband's father was on one of the first navy boats into Nagasaki's harbor. This turned out to be an eye-opening book with George Weller's censored dispatches and account of the deahtship voyages. It also generally reveals man's inhumanity to man, with Japanese refusal...

from yeremenko

This book is mistitled. Very little of it is about Nagasaki. Almost all of it is about the POWs in Japan and on the way to Japan in aptly described "death ships." It has so little about Nagasaki, it is almost false advertising. The death ship narrative is a feat of exceptional journalism and told...

from busterrll

Fantastic read. Makes one wonder (in case you don't know) who General McArthur was looking out for. Interviews with POW's was tough to read. So many people -so much pain and suffering. Should be required reading in place of some of the Pablum students have to read. Well written under duress.

from bgknighton

Excellent addition to anyone reading about WWII, Japan, atomic bombs, Gen MacArthur, prisoners of war. There will never be a definitive answer to the question of should we have dropped the bombs, but this adds info about the question of the character of the Japanese at war. They would never have ...