The PoWs who survived Nagasaki
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How Did the Allied Collapse in the Far East Affect POWs?
Europe chronicles the POW's experiences in Nagasaki. It also tells the story of their capture by Japanese forces. That includes the horrors of those camps or working on the river-qui railway. Why did you decide to look at the bigger picture instead of just focusing on Nagasaki? One was that Nagasaki was just the climax of their terrible years of endurance. If you saw it just as one event, you wouldn't understand that for two and a half, three years before,. they'd been malnourished... So I felt that it gave a context.
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