First into Nagasaki
by George Weller and Anthony Weller
E book version

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Started reading 10 March 2007
Finished reading 20 April 2007

An American journalist forays into the town after The bomb. The book has been compiled by the son who wanted the public to read his father's observations during those first few days. It seems the dispatches at that time did not see the light of day as there was a censorship policy. The winning side, the Americans, only wanted official versions of the tragedy to be disseminated. The journalist not only shows the effects of the nuclear bomb but managed to interview the prisoners of war. War has never been so vivid.