First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 320, illus., map, footnotes, selected reading. Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Inscribed by the editor. George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. After the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, he violated the press blackout imposed on reporters, and explored the devastation caused by the bombing. He also was the first to enter the nearby Allied prisoner of war camps. American military censors suppressed his dispatches, but they were discovered after Weller's death in 2002. Anthony Weller, George Weller's son, has edited and published his father's eyewitness observations. Newspaper book review of the book laid in. Condition: very good, / very good.
Keywords: George Weller, Nagasaki, Atomic Bomb, POW's, Bombardment, Journalists, Eyewitness; War Crorrespondent
ISBN: 0307342018
[Book #56841]
Price: $65.00