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Download or read book Prisoner of the Japs written by Gwen Dew and published by New York : Knopf. This book was released on 1943 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, an American correspondent in Hong Kong during the Japanese siege of 1941, tells the story of her internment, along with other American and British residents of Hong Kong.
Book Synopsis Sacrifice, Captivity & Escape by : Peter Jackson
Download or read book Sacrifice, Captivity & Escape written by Peter Jackson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful memoir of a WWII POW recounts his incredible journey from joining the British Army to life as a prisoner of the Imperial Japanese military. Peter Jackson was young and recently married when he was drafted into the British Army at the start of World War II. He was sent to Singapore just as the city was being evacuated, and within days he was taken prisoner by the Imperial Japanese Army. Peter was one of the very few to survive the hardship, illnesses and brutality that followed. Like so many he was forced into labor, first in Singapore and then on the infamous Thai-Burma railway. But while there, he remarkably escaped with seven other soldiers. When recaptured, he was treated harshly. Jackson’s memoir brings to life both the characters of his comrades and the Japanese soldiers and guards he encountered. Though the experience was truly harrowing, and many of his fellow prisoners despaired at losing years of their young lives, Jackson maintained a sense of hope that they would one day return home
Book Synopsis Back From The Living Dead: by : Major Bert Bank
Download or read book Back From The Living Dead: written by Major Bert Bank and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world famous story of Major Bertram Bert Bank who survived 33 months of prison, torture and starvation at the hands of the Japanese in the Philippines during the Second World War. “He left us to go into service in 1941 and he was called up from inactive status on his reserve commission. “From the time he left us until he came back this year, Bert went through a lot that many other men did not survive. He was taken prisoner of the Japs on Bataan, survived the Bataan March of Death and 33 months internment in a Jap prison camp. Now he’s a patient at Valley Forge General Hospital where Army doctors are attempting to restore his sight to normal. The long, gruelling months on a meager diet took its toll. “But Bert doesn’t complain. “There are a lot of other fellows less fortunate than I,” he will tell you. “Many friends have asked him to tell of his experiences. During the course of bond tours and other public appearances in the Army’s behalf, Bert has recounted these experiences. And so he thought he would write them down for these friends. That’s the reason for this booklet. “The story of his capture and internment are here in Bert’s own words. He is the man identified as the Captain Bert of Alabama in the late Lieutenant Colonel Edward Dyess’ story “The March of Death.” Bert was scheduled to make a break from the Jap prison camp with Colonel Dyess but was sick at the time and could not make it. “So this is the story of Major Bert Bank, a native Tuscaloosan and graduate of the University of Alabama. He’s one of the men who came back from the “living dead.””
Book Synopsis Prisoners of the Japanese by : Roger Bourke
Download or read book Prisoners of the Japanese written by Roger Bourke and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us have read books or watched films based on the prisoner-of-war experience under the Japanese. It's probably true to say that several postwar generations of Americans, Britons and Australians, although no doubt aware of the many memoirs and diaries of prisoners of war of the Japanese, have almost certainly constructed their understanding of that experience largely from its popular fictions. To date, studies on this topic have concentrated on the many memoirs and diaries of former prisoners of the Japanese. Prisoners of the Japanese is the first book to analyse the major fictions of the prisoner-of-war experience under the Japanese.
Book Synopsis Lost Childhood by : Annelex Hofstra Layson
Download or read book Lost Childhood written by Annelex Hofstra Layson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts her childhood experiences as a Japanese prisoner during World War II.
Book Synopsis Prisoner of Japan by : Sir Harold Atcherley
Download or read book Prisoner of Japan written by Sir Harold Atcherley and published by Memoirs Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latter part of WW2, more than a ... million European and American soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese in Malaysia. They went on to suffer deprivation and brutality, most of them failing to survive. I was fortunate enough to be one of the survivors. During my time as a prisoner I kept a diary, which I was able to bring home with me.
Book Synopsis Two Years of Tenko: Life as a Sixteen Year Old in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp by : Elizabeth Van Kampen
Download or read book Two Years of Tenko: Life as a Sixteen Year Old in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp written by Elizabeth Van Kampen and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941 Elizabeth van Kampen was a fourteen year old Dutch girl living with her parents on the island of Java. In January 1942, the Japanese invaded Java and her father was taken to an all male internment camp. Elizabeth's mother was now left alone to look after her daughters. Four months later the van Kampens were sent to a women's internment camp where food was scarce to non existent. For the next two years they were subjected to unspeakable horrors and deprivations at the hands of a barbaric enemy. When the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, the Van Kampen family returned to Holland. Elizabeth was desperate to obtain news of her father and was devastated to learn that her father had died in the internment camp. In the year 2000 she visited Japan and despite her harrowing experiences, she harbours no lasting bitterness towards the Japanese. This is her story
Book Synopsis Three Point Six Years of Hell in Japanese Prisoner of War Camps, 1942-1945 by : Joseph D. Lajzer
Download or read book Three Point Six Years of Hell in Japanese Prisoner of War Camps, 1942-1945 written by Joseph D. Lajzer and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Lajzer, a young, independent businessman in Toledo, Ohio, joined the U.S. Army in February 1941, and celebrated the following Thanksgiving with half a bologna sandwich in the Philippines. When he heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor his armored battalion was at Clark Field, and only a few hours later they were being bombed by the Japs.
Book Synopsis Prisoners of the Japanese by : Gavan Daws
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.
Book Synopsis Valley of the Shadow by : Whitney H. Galbraith
Download or read book Valley of the Shadow written by Whitney H. Galbraith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valley of the Shadow joins a fraternity of published first-person accounts of the fall of the Philippines, including the surrender of Corregidor during World War II. Several senior staff officers of Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, commander of US forces in the Philippines (USFIP), were able to maintain extensive diaries during their three and a half years as POWs of Imperial Japan. These diary accounts are chronological in format and very informative of prisoner conditions and lives in various Japanese prison camps. Valley of the Shadow, transcribed from over one thousand handwritten flimsies that have sat for decades on Galbraith family shelves, treats these experiences more thematically, in third-person narrative form, enabling the author, Col. Nicoll F. Galbraith, to offer a psychological, emotional, and moral matrix to help the reader interpret the challenges and personal behaviors of incarcerated American prisoners who suddenly had been deprived of their normal social and physical lives as officers, colleagues, husbands, and fathers. Colonel Galbraith, exercising a more literary bent, describes his own and his prison mates' struggle to maintain their personal dignity and relationships. As Wainwright's G-4 logistics staff officer, Colonel Galbraith was in unique proximity to the minute-by-minute Corregidor surrender process and release/rescue of the Americans in 1945, both of which were very close calls.
Book Synopsis The Special Prisoner by : Jim Lehrer
Download or read book The Special Prisoner written by Jim Lehrer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2000-09-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the enormous success of his two bestselling previous novels, White Widow and Purple Dots, Jim Lehrer takes on a new and controversial subject in this ambitious story about an American soldier who, many years after the fact, is forced to relive his harrowing experience in the Second World War. The Special Prisoner takes its title from the designation the Japanese government gave U.S. airmen held prisoner during World War II—an indication of the severity with which these foreign devils responsible for bombing Japanese cities were to be treated. John Quincy Watson was a skilled young pilot flying B-29s over Japan when he was shot down and taken prisoner in 1945. Fifty years later, now a prominent religious figure nearing retirement, Bishop Watson believes he has long since overcome the excruciating memories of his months as a POW. But a chance sighting of the now equally elderly Japanese officer who repeatedly tortured him instantly transports the Bishop back to that unendurable time, and he finds himself overwhelmed by an un-controllable desire for vengeance. The result for Watson is both a vivid return to the horrors of his past and the triggering of a new series of events that are also horrific—and tragic. Engaging and emotionally poignant, The Special Prisoner delves into the complicated issue of war guilt and forgiveness, starkly portrayed in the characters of an officer from a country that refuses to admit any wrongdoing and a clergyman who is committed to a belief that to forgive is divine. This is new and controversial territory for Lehrer, and he treats it with passion and respect, while writing in the highly readable, engaging style that is his trademark. This fascinating story of what's fair in war—and what's fair afterward—is a dramatic new novel from the veteran Washington author and newscaster. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jim Lehrer's Tension City.
Download or read book The Real Tenko written by Mark Felton and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Children of the Camps delves into the harrowing true stories behind the TV drama: the fate of women held in Japanese captivity during WWII. This book details the treatment of Allied servicewomen, female civilians, and local women by the Japanese occupation forces, including the massacres of nurses (such as that at Alexandra Hospital, Singapore), disturbing atrocities on both Europeans and Asians, and accounts of imprisonment. It reveals how many ended up in Japanese hands when they should have been evacuated. Also covered are the hardships of long marches and the sexual enslavement of white and native women (so called “Comfort Women”). The book is a testimony both to the callous and cruel behavior of the Japanese and to the courage and fortitude of those who suffered at their hands. “This well-researched book has to be read.” —UK Ministry of Defence “The story of the Allied medical staff who were caught in Japan’s wave of terror during the Second World War . . . briefly follows the fate of Australian nursing survivors as they try to rebuild their shattered lives.” —Soldier Magazine “Accounts of Japanese brutality towards Allied prisoners of war are quite well known, but the fate of the tens of thousand[s] of Allied women and children who fell into their hands is not so familiar (at least since memories of the TV drama Tenko have faded). This harrowing account should go some way towards redressing that balance . . . an important piece of work looking at an aspect of the Second World War that should not be forgotten.” —HistoryOfWar.org
Book Synopsis With Only the Will to Live by : Robert Sherman La Forte
Download or read book With Only the Will to Live written by Robert Sherman La Forte and published by Scholarly Resources, Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And, unlike memoirs by single individuals, the numerous accounts in With Only the Will to Live together give a view of many different camps and kinds of treatment the thousands of POWs were subjected to.
Book Synopsis Japanese Prisoners of War by : Phillip Towle
Download or read book Japanese Prisoners of War written by Phillip Towle and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 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.
Book Synopsis P.O.W. Prisoner of War by : Hank Nelson
Download or read book P.O.W. Prisoner of War written by Hank Nelson and published by Australian Broadcasting Corporation. This book was released on 1985 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of Australian prisoners-of-war in Japanese prison camps - Changi prison.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1942-09-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Book Synopsis How Japs Treat Prisoners by : James Russell Young
Download or read book How Japs Treat Prisoners written by James Russell Young and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
