In Blood, Flowers Bloom - Bresnahan, Samantha
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"In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War II, the common act of soldiers taking their enemy's possessions after victory. This is the story of a single Japanese battle flag found among the belongings of a long-passed American WWII veteran, originally belonging to a Japanese soldier. In telling the story of this flag, and its journey from the battle of Iwo Jima to a basement in upstate New York, award-winning writer, Samantha Bresnahan reveals the way in which objects represent generations of trauma, imperialism, and memory. In Blood, Flowers Bloom tells…mehr

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"In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War II, the common act of soldiers taking their enemy's possessions after victory. This is the story of a single Japanese battle flag found among the belongings of a long-passed American WWII veteran, originally belonging to a Japanese soldier. In telling the story of this flag, and its journey from the battle of Iwo Jima to a basement in upstate New York, award-winning writer, Samantha Bresnahan reveals the way in which objects represent generations of trauma, imperialism, and memory. In Blood, Flowers Bloom tells the overlapping stories of US veteran Marty Connor, Japanese imperial Naval captain turned Buddhist monk Tsunezo Wachi, and Masataka Shiokawa, the resilient son of a Japanese soldier killed in battle at Okinawa. These three men could have lived and died as enemies-that was their historical prerogative. Instead, they banded together as uneasy allies, and then eventual friends, in their shared mission to return artifacts taken by US soldiers to their rightful owners, giving Japanese families a new opportunity for closure and healing the wounds inflicted by loss of loved ones-both physically and spiritually"--
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Autorenporträt
Samantha Bresnahan is a supervising producer for CNN International, based in London. She’s reported across the US and around the world, producing global features from India, Brazil, Japan, Kuwait, Thailand, South Korea, Jamaica, Norway, England, Hong Kong, France, the United Arab Emirates, and beyond. She is a four-time News and Documentary Emmy Award nominee, a Livingston Award finalist, and winner of multiple National Headliner Awards. In addition to her more than fifteen years of experience as a journalist, Bresnahan holds a master of fine arts degree in narrative nonfiction from the University of Georgia.