REVIEW BY TOBY CLARK.
Sailing into Hong Kong in late August 1945, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Anson symbolised the Japanese defeat. Within a week of her arrival, the Anson hosted 500 recently freed ex-Prisoners of War (POWs) for afternoon tea, followed by a tour of the battleship. Reading this story recently, it struck me that tea and a tour of a battleship was, for those POWs, a marvellous confirmation that they were finally free. If this story is now being repeated, so must another.
In Nagasaki: the forgotten prisoners, John Willis examines a selection of Dominion, United Kingdom, and Empire (DUKE) prisoners of war, who, captured by the Japanese in the Second World War, found themselves working in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped.
