Secret: Japanese who survived two atomic bombings.

Introduction: The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan: "Little Boy" and "Fat Man". Have you heard of the man who shot John Wilkes Booth? Or "another Anne Frank"? Graeme Donald's new book The Man Who Killed Lincoln introduces six forgotten historical stories.

1, Thomas Boston-corbett: The man who shot john wilkes Booth.

Corbett was one of several armed men who surrounded the barn where Booth was hiding. Shang Feng's orders were to take Booth alive, but when he saw the man who assassinated President Lincoln, he shot him. At first, he said that he saw Booth preparing to shoot, and later he said that he was acting according to God's will. He was arrested first, then released and rewarded.

2. George Eliot: The first soldier to see the Japanese approaching Pearl Harbor.

1941/kloc-0 at 7: 02 am on February 7th, Private George Elliott, who was on duty at the radar observation station, suddenly saw a big light spot on the radar screen. This light spot was so big that it looked as if there was something wrong with the system. He and his comrades on duty immediately called captain Cmit Taylor, who thought it was the B- 17 fighter group. But Elliot insisted that it was something else. Captain Taylor said, "Don't worry, go and have breakfast." Elliot left the radar observation station.

3. Geiringer family: friends of Anne Frank family.

The Geiringer family are friends of the Franks. They hid across the street from the building where Anne Frank and his family fled the Nazis. Neither side knew that there was another family hiding across the street. Like the Franks, the Geiringer family was betrayed and sent to a concentration camp. Mother Erfei and daughter Eva survived. After the concentration camp was dissolved, they met Anne's father, otto frank. Later, otto frank and Erfei de Geiringer got married at 1953.

4.3,000 British villagers were expelled, and the Americans were able to conduct a simulation exercise of the Normandy landing.

During World War II, the US military wanted to prepare for the Normandy landing as fully as possible. They saw that the topography of Slapton Beach in southern England was very similar to that of French beaches, and they code-named it "Utah Beach". As a result, without any explanation, the US military drove away 3,000 villagers living in Slapton and Tokros, and let them conduct actual combat simulation exercises there.

Luigi Galbani: Mussolini's barber saved his life by pretending to sleep.

Luigi Galbani, Mussolini's hairdresser, overheard Clara Petac, the dictator's mistress, saying on the phone that Mussolini ordered the killing of his wife and son. The dictator wanted to marry another woman, but his wife told others that she was Mussolini's real wife. ) Galbani realized that if Petac found himself eavesdropping, the consequences would be unimaginable, so he sat in a barber's chair and pretended to sleep.

6. Takashi Yamaguchi: Survivor of two atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hiroshi Yamaguchi is a cartographer. He and two colleagues were sent from Nagasaki to Hiroshima to check the problems related to drawings and design. Yamaguchi forgot to take his seal. Go back and get it, and let his colleagues go first without waiting for him. He was present when the first atomic bomb exploded. His colleagues also survived, and the three hijacked a motorboat to go home. Yamaguchi was badly burned, but the next day, when the second atomic bomb exploded, he was still working. Yamaguchi climbed out of a window and managed to get home, where he was burned again.