| ISBN |
1912914425 (hardcover)
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| ISBN13桁 |
9781912914425 (hardcover)
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| 無効なISBN等 |
9781912914432 (ePub ebook)
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| テキストの言語 |
英語
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| 分類：NDC10版 |
210.75
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| 個人著者標目 |
Willis, John,
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| 生没年等 |
1946-
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| 本タイトル |
Nagasaki :
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| タイトル関連情報 |
the forgotten prisoners /
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| 著者名 |
John Willis.
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| 出版地・頒布地 |
London, United Kingdom :
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| 出版者・頒布者名 |
Mensch Publishing,
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| 出版年・頒布年 |
2022,
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| 数量 |
xviii, 362 pages :
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| 他の形態的事項 |
illustration, maps ;
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| 大きさ |
22 cm.
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| 書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references.
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| 内容注記 |
Malaya -- Singapore -- Prisoners -- Java -- Changi -- The River Kwai Railway -- F Force -- Hellship to Japan -- Ben's Busters -- Rescue -- Camp 14b, Nagasaki -- Camp 2b, Nagasaki -- Before the bomb -- Bock's car -- Fat man -- After the bomb -- Surrender -- Homecomings -- Aftermath -- Return to Nagasaki.
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| 要約、抄録、注釈等 |
"This is one of the most remarkable untold stories of the Second World war. At 11.02 am on an August morning in 1945 America dropped the world's most powerful atomic bomb on the Japanese port city of Nagasaki. The most European city in Japan was flattened to the ground 'as if it had been swept aside by a broom'. More than 70,000 Japanese were killed. At the time, hundreds of Allied prisoners of war were working close to the bomb's detonation point, as forced labourers in the shipyards and foundries of Nagasaki. These men, from the Dales of Yorkshire and the dusty outback of Australia, from the fields of Holland and the remote towns of Texas, had already endured an extraordinary lottery of life and death that had changed their lives forever. They had lived through nearly four years of malnutrition, disease, and brutality. Now their prison home was the target of America's second atomic bomb. In one of the greatest survival stories of the Second World War, we trace their astonishing experiences back to bloody battles in the Malayan jungle, before the dramatic fall of Fortress Singapore, the mighty symbol of the British Empire. This abject capitulation was followed by surrender in Java and elsewhere in the East, condemning the captives to years of cruel imprisonment by the Japanese. Their lives grew evermore perilous when thousands of prisoners were shipped off to build the infamous Thai-Burma Railway, including the Bridge on the River Kwai. If that was not harsh enough, POWs were then transported to Japan in the overcrowded holds of what were called hell ships. These rusty buckets were regularly sunk by Allied submarines, and thousands of prisoners lived through unimaginable horror, adrift on the ocean for days. Some still had to endure the final supreme test, the world's second atomic bomb"--Publisher's description.
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| 一般件名 |
Atomic bomb victims -- Nagasaki-shi.
Victimes de bombardements atomiques -- Nagasaki. |
| 地名件名 |
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives.
Japan -- Nagasaki-shi. |
| 文献識別 |
JP
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| 資料情報1 |
『Nagasaki :
the forgotten prisoners /』 John Willis. Mensch Publishing, 2022,
（所蔵館：中央
請求記号：F/210.75/W14/N
資料コード：7116726629）
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| URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352060687 |
