Publisher | Granta Books |
ISBN 13 | 9781846274428 |
ISBN 10 | 1846274427 |
Author | Craig Collie |
Language | English |
Book Description | 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. |
About the Author | Craig Collie is a TV documentary maker, and the author of several books about Australian history. |
Publication Date | 2013-04-04 |
Number of Pages | 352 pages |
Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and the Unknowing