Biography

Leonard Cheshire was born on September 7, 1917 in Chester, Cheshire, England, UK. He died on July 31, 1992 in Suffolk, England, UK.

Appointed to be the British observer of the American nuclear attacks on Japan. Witnessed the dropping of the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

Unless we all - passionately I am tempted to say - believe in change, a change that leads to improvement and the gradual building of a better world, we are swimming against the tide of life

We need to set our sights high, to be satisfied with nothing less than the best, and to commit ourselves totally and unreservedly to participate in the struggle to build a more liveable world