4000 Bowls Of Rice A Prisoner Of War Comes Home
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Four Thousand Bowls Of Rice
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Author : Linda Goetz Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Release Date : 1993
Four Thousand Bowls Of Rice written by Linda Goetz Holmes and has been published by Unwin Hyman this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Australia categories.
A glimpse into desperate daily life in the prison camps of Java, Burma, and Thailand during World War II.
4000 Bowls Of Rice A Prisoner Of War Comes Home
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Author : Linda Goetz Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Brick Tower Press
Release Date : 2009-05-21
4000 Bowls Of Rice A Prisoner Of War Comes Home written by Linda Goetz Holmes and has been published by Brick Tower Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-21 with History categories.
“A respected historian and researcher” —Publishers Weekly “A prize is waiting somewhere out there, which Linda Holmes richly deserves for revisiting some appalling realities in a positive way fifty years after the fact.” —Nancy Steffens Seaman, Smithsonian Magazine’s Board of Editors “A tribute to courage and determination of the men who endured it...I ate the book up, and was disappointed to come to the end so fast, and this hasn’t happened to me in a long time.” —Otto Schwarz, Burma Railway survivor and founder, USS Houston Survivors’ Association. ”Linda Goetz Holmes has focused on a most interesting, and somewhat neglected, period of the Allied POW experience — the hiatus between the end of the war and the return home... A useful addition to the growing body of literature on the Allied POW experience in Asia.”—Tim Bowden, Australian author and documentary producer. During the early days of World War II, Cecil Dickson and much of the 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion were forced to surrender to the Japanese. This group of POWs, along with captured American National Guard soldiers from Texas and California, and survivors from the sunk USS Houston, were shipped to Burma and Thailand to construct the infamous “Railway of Death” immortalized in the film Bridge Over the River Kwai. 16,000 Allied POWs would die toiling on the railway, and those who lived endured over three years of harsh slave labor until they were released to journey home. Respected military historian Linda Goetz Holmes tells Dickson’s story of his experiences in Japanese labor camps and his determined plan to survive and return to a normal life. Amazing photographs, taken secretly by other prisoners, and personal letters help chronicle this dark chapter in the history of Allied troops in the Pacific.
The Thailand Burma Railway 1942 1946 Voluntary Accounts
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Author : Paul H. Kratoska
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2006
The Thailand Burma Railway 1942 1946 Voluntary Accounts written by Paul H. Kratoska and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Australian Defence Force Journal
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
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Unjust Enrichment
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Author : Linda Goetz Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Classics
Release Date : 2017-09-15
Unjust Enrichment written by Linda Goetz Holmes and has been published by Stackpole Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-15 with History categories.
The use of American POW's as slave labor by Japanese companies is the great unresolved issue of the Second World War in the Pacific. Unjust Enrichment provides a forum for American servicemen to tell their own stories, while Linda Holmes gives the reader the historic context to recognize the seriousness of the crimes. Bio: Linda Goetz Holmes has been interviewing and writing about World War II prisoners in the Pacific for over 30 years. She is the first historian appointed to the U.S. Government Interagency Working Group, formed in 1999 under the aegis of the National Archives to locate and declassify material about World War II war crimes.
Jpri Working Paper
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
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Current Contents
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Author : Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Current Contents written by Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
The Publishers Weekly
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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International Bibliography Of Book Reviews Of Scholarly Literature Chiefly In The Fields Of Arts And Humanities And The Social Sciences
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
International Bibliography Of Book Reviews Of Scholarly Literature Chiefly In The Fields Of Arts And Humanities And The Social Sciences written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Books categories.
Guests Of The Emperor
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Author : Linda Goetz Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-08-15
Guests Of The Emperor written by Linda Goetz Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-15 with History categories.
The one unresolved issue of the Pacific War is the treatment of our prisoners of war, during and after World War II, both by the Japanese and by our own government. Never before in our military history have so many Americans, military and civilian, been taken captive by an enemy at one time. It was a triumph for the Japanese, and an embarrassment to our own government. Over 36,000 men, mostly military but some civilian, were thrown into Japanese military POW camps, forced to labor for companies working to meet quotas for Japan's war effort. Guests of the Emperor takes you inside the largest fixed military prison camp in the Japanese Empire: Mitsubishi's huge factory complex at Mukden, Manchuria, where 1,200 American prisoners were subjected to brutal cold, starvation, beatings, medical experiments and an extremely high death rate while being forced to help manufacture parts for Mitsubishi's Zero fighter planes. This book is the first to reveal conclusively that some Americans at Mukden were singled out for medical experiments by Japan's biological warfare team, the infamous Unit 731, located just a few hundred miles from this camp. Nowhere else did American prisoners despise their officers so much; commit more creative sabotage; survive such brutal cold; endure death by friendly fire; and require the combined efforts of an OSS rescue team and special recovery unit, to come home alive. Anyone who wants to know more about the Pacific War, with all its contradictions and deceptions, will want to read The Manchurian Mystery.