The PoWs who survived Nagasaki

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.9	The Japanese city of Nagasaki is probably best known for being the target of the world's second ever nuclear attack
0:55.7	in August 1945. But far fewer people will know that the city was also home to hundreds of
1:03.4	allied prisoners of war, forcibly put to work to support the Japanese war economy. John Willis's
1:10.6	book Nagasaki delves into the incredible and largely forgotten story of the POWs
1:16.9	who survived the brutal camps in the Far East.
1:20.4	He told Spencer Mizz and more about how they were transported to the Japanese mainland on so-called
1:25.8	hell ships and later witnessed a bomb that would help bring the Second World War to an end.
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