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Imperial Japan's Allied Prisoners of War in the South Pacific

Author : C. Kenneth Quinones
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527575462
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Japan's Allied Prisoners of War in the South Pacific written by C. Kenneth Quinones and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three weeks after Imperial Japan’s surrender, five men dressed in baggy khaki uniforms stared at the camera. They and two colleagues were the only survivors out of the 210 Allied airmen which Imperial Japan had imprisoned in “paradise.” Joining them were 18 British soldiers, the only survivors of 600 of their countrymen similarly but separately imprisoned. Another 10,000 Allied soldiers and civilians were also imprisoned on the South Pacific island of New Britain. More than half died before liberation. What motivated such inhumane treatment? This book’s quest for an answer traces the genesis of Bushido, Imperial Japan’s martial code, and surveys the prisoners’ recollections of their ordeal as the Battle for Rabaul raged around them from 1942 to March 1944.

Imperial Japan's Allied Prisoners of War in the South Pacific

Author : C. Kenneth Quinones
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781527570962
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Japan's Allied Prisoners of War in the South Pacific written by C. Kenneth Quinones and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three weeks after Imperial Japanâ (TM)s surrender, five men dressed in baggy khaki uniforms stared at the camera. They and two colleagues were the only survivors out of the 210 Allied airmen which Imperial Japan had imprisoned in â oeparadise.â Joining them were 18 British soldiers, the only survivors of 600 of their countrymen similarly but separately imprisoned. Another 10,000 Allied soldiers and civilians were also imprisoned on the South Pacific island of New Britain. More than half died before liberation. What motivated such inhumane treatment? This bookâ (TM)s quest for an answer traces the genesis of Bushido, Imperial Japanâ (TM)s martial code, and surveys the prisonersâ (TM) recollections of their ordeal as the Battle for Rabaul raged around them from 1942 to March 1944.

Prisoners of the Empire

Author : Sarah Kovner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674250192
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of the Empire written by Sarah Kovner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking account of World War II POW camps, challenging the longstanding belief that the Japanese Empire systematically mistreated Allied prisoners. In only five months, from the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the fall of Corregidor in May 1942, the Japanese Empire took prisoner more than 140,000 Allied servicemen and 130,000 civilians from a dozen different countries. From Manchuria to Java, Burma to New Guinea, the Japanese army hastily set up over seven hundred camps to imprison these unfortunates. In the chaos, 40 percent of American POWs did not survive. More Australians died in captivity than were killed in combat. Sarah Kovner offers the first portrait of detention in the Pacific theater that explains why so many suffered. She follows Allied servicemen in Singapore and the Philippines transported to Japan on “hellships” and singled out for hard labor, but also describes the experience of guards and camp commanders, who were completely unprepared for the task. Much of the worst treatment resulted from a lack of planning, poor training, and bureaucratic incoherence rather than an established policy of debasing and tormenting prisoners. The struggle of POWs tended to be greatest where Tokyo exercised the least control, and many were killed by Allied bombs and torpedoes rather than deliberate mistreatment. By going beyond the horrific accounts of captivity to actually explain why inmates were neglected and abused, Prisoners of the Empire contributes to ongoing debates over POW treatment across myriad war zones, even to the present day.

Japanese Prisoners of War

Author : Philip Towle
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1852851929
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Prisoners of War written by Philip Towle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War the Japanese were stereotyped in the European and American imagination as fanatical, cruel and almost inhuman. This view is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognise that the Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis and it fails to take account of their own historical tradition. The essays in Japanese Prisoners of War, by both Western and Japanese scholars, explore the question from a balanced viewpoint, looking at it in the light of longer-term influences, notably the Japanese attempt to establish themselves as an honorary white race. The book also addresses the other side of the question, looking at the treatment of Japanese prisoners in Allied captivity.

Prisoners of the Japanese

Author : Gavan Daws
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of the Japanese written by Gavan Daws and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1994 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 140,000 Allied prisoners were taken by the Japanese during World War II. Based on hundreds of interviews with those who survived, here are the harrowing, moving recollections of Americans before, during, and after their capture--men whose ordeal has been overlooked by independent historians and purposely ignored by official accounts. 16 pages of photos.

Prisoners in Paradise

Author : Theresa Kaminski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Prisoners in Paradise written by Theresa Kaminski and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on letters & diaries of American wives, missionaries, teachers, nurses, and spies to uncover their heroic tales while captives of the Japanese during World War II.

Prisoners of The Japanese

Author : Gavin Daws
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780688143701
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of The Japanese written by Gavin Daws and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 1996-01-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gavan Daws combined ten years of documentary research and hundreds of interviews with surrviving POWs to write this explosive, first-and-only account of the experiences of the Allied POWs of World War II. The Japanese Army took over 140,000 Allied prisoners, and one in four died the hands of their captors. Here Daws reveals the survivors' haunting experiences, from the atrocities perpetrated during the Bataan Death March and the building of the Burma-Siam railroad to descriptions of disease, torture, and execution.

Prisoners of the Empire

Author : Sarah C. Kovner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674250215
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of the Empire written by Sarah C. Kovner and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death on the Hellships

Author : Gregory Michno
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
ISBN 13 : 9780850528213
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Death on the Hellships written by Gregory Michno and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed chronicle of the Japanese treatment of POWs during World War II reveals the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea. Survivors describe their ordeal in the Japanese Hellships as the absolute worst experience of their captivity. Crammed by the thousands into holds of ships, moved from island to island and put to work, they endured all the horrors of the prison camps magnified tenfold. Gregory Michno draws on American, British, Australian and Dutch POW accounts as well as Japanese convoy histories, recently declassified radio intelligence reports , and a wealth of archival sources to present for the first time a detailed picture of what happened. His findings are startling. More than 126,000 Allied prisoners were transported in the hellships with more than 21,000 fatalities. While beatings, starvation, and disease caused many of the deaths, the most, Michno reports, were caused by Allied bombs, bullets, and torpedoes. He further reports that this so-called friendly fire was not always accidental - at times high-level decisions were made to sink Japanese ships despite the presence of POWs. His careful examination of the role of U.S. submarines in the sinkings and the rescue of POWs makes yet another significant contribution to the history of the Pacific war. Selling Points *The mistreatment of POWs at the hands of the Japanese continues to shock readers. *The sinking of the hellships by Allied naval vessels has been the subject of recent well publicised controversy. Author Profile Gregory Michno, has a master's degree in history. Author of scores of articles which have appeared in leading magazines as well as three books, including his latest USS Pampanito: Killer Angel, the story of a fleet submarine in the Pacific War.

Prisoners of the Japanese in World War II

Author : Van Waterford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of the Japanese in World War II written by Van Waterford and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives and facts on life in civilian internment centers and POW camps are presented here.

The Knights of Bushido

Author : Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron Russell of Liverpool
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Knights of Bushido written by Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron Russell of Liverpool and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the classic, standard account of Japanese war crimes; a best seller in its time, but out of print for many years. Between 1931 and 1945 Japanese troops rampaged through one defeated country after another, executing civilians, despoiling cities, massacring prisoners and cruelly exploiting prisoners of war and native populations. This sweeping indictment of atrocities committed by the forces of the Rising Sun is a detailed and carefully documented study and one that throws light onto one of the most disturbing episodes of World War II.

1000 Days on the River Kwai

Author : Cary Owtram
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473897823
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book 1000 Days on the River Kwai written by Cary Owtram and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British officer recounts his harrowing years as a POW in Thailand, including his time as the camp commandant, in this WWII memoir. Colonel Cary Owtram served with the 137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and the 11th Indian Infantry Division in Malaysia. After being captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he was transported to the infamous Burma railway. He went on to spend the next three and a half years in grueling captivity in Thailand, first in Ban Pong Camp and then Chungkai Camp—one of the largest POW camps in the region. Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, making him responsible for his fellow prisoners—a heavy responsibility added to the general deprivation and hardship suffered by all. During that time, Owtram kept a secret diary in which he recorded the brutal experience of surviving day to day and attempting to deal with their harsh and unpredictable Japanese captors. It is not only the prisoners who suffered, but also their families at home. The postscript by Owtram’s daughters vividly demonstrates the agonies of doubt and worry that loved ones went through and the effect of the experience on all.

Multi-Domain Battle in the Southwest Pacific Theater of World War II

Author : Combat Studies Institute Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781086087291
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Multi-Domain Battle in the Southwest Pacific Theater of World War II written by Combat Studies Institute Press and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Multi-Domain Battle in the Southwest Pacific Theater of World War II" provides a historical account of how US forces used synchronized operations in the air, maritime, information, and land domains to defeat the Japanese Empire. This work offers a historical case that illuminates current thinking about future campaigns in which coordination among all domains will be critical for success.

The "Japanese" War

Author : Sadao Ōba
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781873410332
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The "Japanese" War written by Sadao Ōba and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How British school pupils were recruited to learn in 18 months or less what was then considered to be the most difficult language in the world, in order to become translators, interpreters and interrogators for the allied effort in the Pacific War.

The Battle for Vella Lavella

Author : Reg Newell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476619840
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Battle for Vella Lavella written by Reg Newell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the Solomon Islands became the scene of a titanic struggle between Allied and Japanese forces. After their victory on Guadalcanal, Americans advanced into the New Georgia Group with horrendous casualties. Admiral Halsey then implemented an “island hopping” strategy, bypassing Japanese strongpoints. The first was an obscure island called “Vella Lavella.” This book is the first detailed examination of the struggle for Vella Lavella, covering the ground, air and sea battles and the involvement of American and New Zealand soldiers, the coastwatchers, South Pacific Scouts and the Islanders.

The Pacific War

Author : Christina Twomey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131780788X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Pacific War written by Christina Twomey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific War is an umbrella term that refers collectively to a disparate set of wars, however, this book presents a strong case for considering this assemblage of conflicts as a collective, singular war. It highlights the genuine thematic commonalities in the legacies of war that cohere across the Asia-Pacific and shows how the wars, both individually and collectively, wrought dramatic change to the geo-political makeup of the region. This book discusses the cultural, political and social implications of the Pacific War and engages with debates over the war’s impact, legacies, and continuing cultural resonances. Crucially, it examines the meanings and significance of the Second World War from a truly international perspective and the contributors present fascinating case studies that highlight the myriad of localised idiosyncrasies in how the Pacific War has been remembered and deployed in political contexts. The chapters trace the shared legacy that the individual wars had on demographics, culture and mobility across the Asia Pacific, and demonstrate how in the aftermath of the war political borders were transformed and new nation states emerged. The book also considers racial and sexual tensions which accompanied the arrival of both Allied and Axis personnel and their long lasting consequences, as well as the impact returning veterans and the war crime trials that followed the conflict had on societies in the region. In doing so, it succeeds in illuminating the events and issues that unfolded in the weeks, months, and indeed decades after the war. This interdisciplinary volume examines the aftermaths and legacies of war for individuals, communities, and institutions across South, Southeast, and East Asia, Oceania, and the Pacific world. As such, it will be welcomed by students and scholars of Asian history, modern history and cultural history, as well as by those interested in issues of memory and commemoration.

The Asia Pacific War

Author : Yasuko Claremont
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315408007
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Asia Pacific War written by Yasuko Claremont and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines key aspects of the Asia Pacific War (1931–1945), that was initially waged between Japan and China, before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor drew in the U.S.-led allied forces from 1941 to 1945. Part I of the book examines three interlocking components, the origins of the war; its impact on combatants and civilians; and its short-term legacy, including the huge changes that took place in the postwar governance of Japan. Part II explores the ongoing impact and legacy of the war for those in postwar Japan, and later generations, particularly through the examination of the ambiguity of state-led reconciliation with Japan’s neighbors, the growth of dynamic civil reconciliation efforts, and the prominent role of the arts in peace movements. Through a people-centered approach it filters historical events through the lens of the war’s impact on individuals, who found themselves players within a larger frame of the social history of Japan and caught up in the international power dynamics of the nuclear age. Featuring studies of contemporary peace activism, this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Modern Asian and U.S. History, as well as those interested in postwar memory and reconciliation.