COLLIE, CRAIG

Nagasaki

London: Portobello Books Ltd, 2012. 1st Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 1846274419. As new.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Photographs; 9.29 X 6.38 X 1.34 inches; 338 pages; "Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second bombing in NagasakiIn a compelling narrative based on eyewitness accounts, contemporary diaries, letters, and interviews, Craig Collie collects the stories of the many levels of devastation suffered on that fateful day in Nagasaki. The war was coming to an end at last. The people of Nagasaki knew this as they desperately tried to survive each day's shortages of food and warmth—ordinary people going about their lives as normally as they could manage. ". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 18350

Catalogue: Militaria::WWII::Japan

Keywords: 1846274419 hiroshima Atom Bomb Militaria

COWLING, ANTHONY

My Life with the Samurai How I Survived Japanese Death Camps

Kenthurst NSW, Australia: Kangaroo Press PTY Ltd, 2003. Third Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0864178123. Signed by Author; Only slight wear ; Signed by author on the title page. A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages; The author's personal account of his imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II. He is one of the few survivors of the death camps at Haruku, Ambon and Muna in the South Pacific.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 15882

Catalogue: Militaria::WWII::Japan

Keywords: 0864178123 Japan Prisoner of War WWII Militaria

DOWER, JOHN W.

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1999. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0393046869. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W illustrations. Extensive background notes at back of book. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 676 pages; "Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. ". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21334

Catalogue: Militaria::WWII::Japan

Keywords: 0393046869 US occupation WWII Atomic Bomb post War II Japan HISTORY ASIA Militaria

KUBO, MITSUE (TRANSLATION BY RYOJI INOUE)

Hibaku Recollections of a

Coquitlam, BC: Ryoji Inoue, 1990. 1st Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 0969477503. DJ and boards show light shelf wear. Store clearance stamp on front pastedown, gift notation on front end paper, remainder mark on page bottoms. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Photographs; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 185 pages; An oral history with interviews with survivors of the bombing of Nagasaki.. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 19390

Catalogue: Militaria::WWII::Japan

Keywords: 0969477503 nagasaki Militaria

TOLAND, JOHN

The Rising Sun the Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936

New York: Random House, 1970. Later Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 039444311X. DJ and boards show some shelf wear, with DJ having short tears on top edge, sun-faded on spine, price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 954 pages; "This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author's words, a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox.". Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21150

Catalogue: Militaria::WWII::Japan

Keywords: 039444311X Japan Pacific war Sino Japanese war ASIA Militaria