Nippon Slaves
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Nippon Slaves
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Author : Lionel De Rosario
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Nippon Slaves written by Lionel De Rosario and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Military service, Voluntary categories.
Lionel de Rosario was a 20-year-old civil servant and member of the Singapore Volunteer Corps when the Japanese overran Singapore in February 1942, taking him prisoner for three and a half years. During that time he marched as one of the 1600 able-bodied British internees to Thailand where he worked on the infamous Death Railway. He was one of only 112 recognizable survivors of that ordeal to return to Singapore six months later.
The Transnational Redress Movement For The Victims Of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
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Author : Pyong Gap Min
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-02-10
The Transnational Redress Movement For The Victims Of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery written by Pyong Gap Min and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-10 with History categories.
This book examines the redress movement for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery in South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. comprehensively. The Japanese military forcefully mobilized about 80,000-200,000 Asian women to Japanese military brothels and forced them into sexual slavery during the Asian-Pacific War (1932-1945). Korean "comfort women" are believed to have been the largest group because of Korea’s colonial status. The redress movement for the victims started in South Korea in the late 1980s. The emergence of Korean "comfort women" to society to tell the truth beginning in 1991 and the discovery of Japanese historical documents, proving the responsibility of the Japanese military for establishing and operating military brothels by a Japanese historian in 1992 accelerated the redress movement for the victims. The movement has received strong support from UN human rights bodies, the U.S. and other Western countries. It has also greatly contributed to raising people’s consciousness of sexual violence against women at war. However, the Japanese government has not made a sincere apology and compensation to the victims to bring justice to the victims.
Slaves Of The Samurai
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Author : Sir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Slaves Of The Samurai written by Sir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with War poetry, Australian categories.
Slaves Of The Samurai
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Author : Sir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Slaves Of The Samurai written by Sir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with War poetry, Australian categories.
The Sportsmen Of Changi
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Author : Kevin Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: UNSW Press
Release Date : 2012
The Sportsmen Of Changi written by Kevin Blackburn and has been published by UNSW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Australian prisoners of war playing sport, at times with their captors, does not fit the picture embedded in the popular imagination of horror and suffering in Japanese POW camps during WWII. But incredibly, sport flourished amidst the hellish conditions in these camps. The Sportsmen of Changi is a moving account of diggers for whom sport was not just a means to boost morale and an escape from a dreadful reality, but a way of feeling human in the face of inhuman suffering. Captives played Aussie Rules football at the infamous Changi Prison, and tennis on the Burmese side of the Burma-Thailand Railway. They played soccer, cricket, baseball or basketball and sometimes their prison guards even joined in for a game. And there were many elite sportsmen in these ranks who were intent on reviving their sporting careers after returning home at war s end. What did sports in captivity mean to these soldiers? Did it prove that they were still tough fighting men despite defeat? Or was it their one link to normalcy, a poignant attempt to instil order in a maelstrom of humiliation, disease, violence and despair? The Sportsmen of Changi considers these questions with clarity, delving into the diaries of prisoners and other historical evidence overlooked until now."
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.
Gold Warriors
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Author : Peggy Seagrave
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Gold Warriors written by Peggy Seagrave and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with History categories.
In 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These, combined with Japanese treasure recovered during the US occupation, and with recovered Nazi loot, would create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. This 'Black Gold' gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America's allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years.
Ship Of Ghosts
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Author : James D. Hornfischer
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2009-03-25
Ship Of Ghosts written by James D. Hornfischer and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-25 with History categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Son, we’re going to Hell." The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force ruthlessly committed to total conquest. It wasn’t a fair fight, but the men of the Houston would wage it to the death. Hornfischer brings to life the awesome terror of nighttime naval battles that turned decks into strobe-lit slaughterhouses, the deadly rain of fire from Japanese bombers, and the almost superhuman effort of the crew as they miraculously escaped disaster again and again–until their luck ran out during a daring action in Sunda Strait. There, hopelessly outnumbered, the Houston was finally sunk and its survivors taken prisoner. For more than three years their fate would be a mystery to families waiting at home. In the brutal privation of jungle POW camps dubiously immortalized in such films as The Bridge on the River Kwai, the war continued for the men of the Houston—a life-and-death struggle to survive forced labor, starvation, disease, and psychological torture. Here is the gritty, unvarnished story of the infamous Burma–Thailand Death Railway glamorized by Hollywood, but which in reality mercilessly reduced men to little more than animals, who fought back against their dehumanization with dignity, ingenuity, sabotage, will–power—and the undying faith that their country would prevail. Using journals and letters, rare historical documents, including testimony from postwar Japanese war crimes tribunals, and the eyewitness accounts of Houston’s survivors, James Hornfischer has crafted an account of human valor so riveting and awe-inspiring, it’s easy to forget that every single word is true. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from James D. Hornfischer's Neptune's Inferno.
From Shanghai To The Burma Railway
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Author : Rory Laird
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Release Date : 2020-04-30
From Shanghai To The Burma Railway written by Rory Laird and has been published by Pen and Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-30 with History categories.
A graphic record of one man’s experience in an infamous POW camp during World War II, and how he survived being forced to build the “Death Railway.” Captured after fighting in the Malayan Campaign, Richard Laird was incarcerated in Changi before being drafted as slave labor with “F” Force on the notorious Burma Railway. He was one of only 400 out of 1600 to survive Songkurai No. 2 Camp, despite disease and terrible hardship. His moving memoir begins with a rare description of ex-patriate life in 1930s Shanghai with the Sino-Japanese war raging around the European cantonments. An additional dimension to his story is the developing relationship between the author and Bobbie Coupar Patrick to whom he became engaged shortly before the fall of Singapore. Bobbie’s letters graphically described her dramatic escape to Australia and work for Force 136. They were reunited in Colombo, Ceylon and their son has been instrumental in compiling this exceptional record. Three appendices round off this superb book including the official report on the hardships and losses suffered by “F” Force. “A compelling story that deserves to be widely read.” —Firetrench
Marshall Of Singapore
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Author : Kevin Tan
language : en
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Release Date : 2008
Marshall Of Singapore written by Kevin Tan and has been published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Chronicles the life, times and achievements of David Marshall ('Singapore's Conscience'). This book presents the story of this extraordinary man who was, for many, Singapore's 'missionary of democracy'.