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Atomic People review: Why the horrific stories of Japan's A-bomb survivors must be heard, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

Curious to recall, at a time when the few remaining veterans of Dunkirk and D-Day are justly celebrated as national heroes, that it wasn't always this way

Middle-aged ex-servicemen kept their reminiscences for regimental get-togethers or nights at the British Legion club — and many of the old soldiers who had fought at the Somme and Ypres carried their memories to the grave, untold. Though American planes dropped leaflets, urging the people of Hiroshima to flee for their lives, the warnings were torn up, dismissed as mere propaganda by their teachers. One man called Hideo, who was just a toddler at the time and who was somehow shielded from the blast by furniture, was astonished to discover newsreel footage of himself 50 years later.

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