| First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War Contributor(s): Weller, George (Author), Weller, Anthony (Editor), Cronkite, Walter (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0786173246 ISBN-13: 9780786173242 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: January 2007 Annotation: Legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter George Weller provides an unparalleled look at the bomb that killed more than 70,000 people and led to the end of World War II in these eyewitness dispatches on post-atomic Japan and its prisoners of war, discovered by Weller's son after his death. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Military - Nuclear Warfare - History | Asia - Japan |
| Dewey: 940.542 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.32" W x 7.54" (0.21 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On September 6, 1945, less than a month after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, George Weller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, became the first free Westerner to enter the devastated city. Going into hospitals and consulting doctors of the bomb's victims, he was the first to document its unprecedented medical effects. He also became the first to enter the Allied POW camps, which rivaled Nazi camps for cruelty and bested them for death count. Among the prisoners' untold stories was of their voyage to imprisonment in Japan on "hellships" that transported them so inhumanely that one third of them died in transit. Heavily censored by General MacArthur, most of these dispatches were never published and believed lost--until now. This historic body of work is a stirring reminder of the courage of rogue reporting that ferrets out the truth. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cronkite, Walter: - Walter Cronkite (1916-2009), narrator of the United States Constitution series, was called the most trusted man in America. That trust stemmed from his leadership position in American journalism for more than forty years. Weller, George: -George Weller, a graduate of Harvard, wrote for the New York Times but made his name covering World War II for the Chicago Daily News. He won many honors as a foreign correspondent, including a 1943 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on soldiers returning from the frontlines. He continued as a foreign correspondent until his death in 2002. Weller, Anthony: -Anthony Weller, George Weller's son, is the author of three novels and a memoir. Rudnicki, Stefan: -Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than three thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014 and was named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices in 2012. |