Nagasaki: the forgotten prisoners

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 t