Reassessing The Japanese Prisoner Of War Experience
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Reassessing The Japanese Prisoner Of War Experience
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Author : R P W Havers
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-03-27
Reassessing The Japanese Prisoner Of War Experience written by R P W Havers and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-27 with History categories.
This book explores the history of the Changi Prisoner of War camp at Singapore between the surrender in 1942 and the eventual liberation by British forces in September 1945. It discusses the forms of POW resistance to the Japanese.
Reassessing The Japanese Prisoner Of War Experience
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Reassessing The Japanese Prisoner Of War Experience written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Changi (Singapore) categories.
Japanese Prisoners Of War
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Author : Philip Towle
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1999-07-01
Japanese Prisoners Of War written by Philip Towle and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-01 with History categories.
During World War II the Japanese were stereotyped in the European imagination as fanatical, cruel, almost inhuman - an image reflected in most books and films about prisoner of war in the Far East. While the Japanese certainly treated those they captured badly, behaving far worse to Chinese and native captives than to Europeans, the conventional view of the Japanese is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognize that the Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis trial, at a particular period of their history, and that their attitudes were influenced by a combination of their perception of their own racial identity mixed with a powerful historical tradition. This collection of essays, by both western and Japanese scholars, aims to see the question from a historical viewpoint, and from both a western and Japanese perspective, looking at it in the light of both longer-term influences, notably the Japanese attempt to establish themselves as an honorary white race. The essays also examine particular instances. Conditions in the almost self-run camp at Changi contrasted remarkably with those on the Burma Railway, where disease and a failure to provide supplies caused terrible suffering. The book also addresses the other side of the question, looking at the treatment of Japanese prisoners in Allied captivity.
The Changi Prisoner Of War Camp
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Author : Rob Havers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Changi Prisoner Of War Camp written by Rob Havers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
The Anguish Of Surrender
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Author : Ulrich A. Straus
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011-10-01
The Anguish Of Surrender written by Ulrich A. Straus and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with Social Science categories.
On December 6, 1941, Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki was one of a handful of men selected to skipper midget subs on a suicide mission to breach Pearl Harbor’s defenses. When his equipment malfunctioned, he couldn’t find the entrance to the harbor. He hit several reefs, eventually splitting the sub, and swam to shore some miles from Pearl Harbor. In the early dawn of December 8, he was picked up on the beach by two Japanese American MPs on patrol. Sakamaki became Prisoner No. 1 of the Pacific War. Japan’s no-surrender policy did not permit becoming a POW. Sakamaki and his fellow soldiers and sailors had been indoctrinated to choose between victory and a heroic death. While his comrades had perished, he had survived. By becoming a prisoner of war, Sakamaki believed he had brought shame and dishonor on himself, his family, his community, and his nation, in effect relinquishing his citizenship. Sakamaki fell into despair and, like so many Japanese POWs, begged his captors to kill him. Based on the author’s interviews with dozens of former Japanese POWs along with memoirs only recently coming to light, The Anguish of Surrender tells one of the great unknown stories of World War II. Beginning with an examination of Japan’s prewar ultranationalist climate and the harsh code that precluded the possibility of capture, the author investigates the circumstances of surrender and capture of men like Sakamaki and their experiences in POW camps. Many POWs, ill and starving after days wandering in the jungles or hiding out in caves, were astonished at the superior quality of food and medical treatment they received. Contrary to expectations, most Japanese POWs, psychologically unprepared to deal with interrogations, provided information to their captors. Trained Allied linguists, especially Japanese Americans, learned how to extract intelligence by treating the POWs humanely. Allied intelligence personnel took advantage of lax Japanese security precautions to gain extensive information from captured documents. A few POWs, recognizing Japan’s certain defeat, even assisted the Allied war effort to shorten the war. Far larger numbers staged uprisings in an effort to commit suicide. Most sought to survive, suffered mental anguish, and feared what awaited them in their homeland. These deeply human stories follow Japanese prisoners through their camp experiences to their return to their welcoming families and reintegration into postwar society. These stories are told here for the first time in English.
Prisoners Of The Japanese
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Author : Roger Bourke
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Release Date : 2006
Prisoners Of The Japanese written by Roger Bourke and has been published by Univ. of Queensland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Between December 1941 and May 1942, the Japanese army took more than 130,000 allied prisoners of war, more than a quarter did not survive their imprisonment. Here, Bourke analyses the major novels and films of the prisoners-of-war experience under the Japanese and uncovers the extent to which these fictions have influenced our beliefs.
Sacrifice Captivity And Escape
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Author : Peter Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2013-01-19
Sacrifice Captivity And Escape written by Peter Jackson and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-19 with History categories.
Sacrifice, Captivity and Escape is an exceptional story. Peter Jackson was young and recently married when he was drafted into the army at the start of World War II. He had no wish to be there but like most of his generation he was given no choice. Peter arrived in Singapore just as the city was being evacuated and within days he was a prisoner of 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 to work for the Japanese, first in Singapore and then on the infamous Thai-Burma railway. While there, remarkably, he escaped with seven other soldiers and, when recaptured, he was treated harshly. His memoir brings alive the characters of his comrades and also of the Japanese who he encountered. Some of the Japanese treated their prisoners humanely and Peter was able to form a relationship with them but others were sadistic psychopaths. But throughout his memoir there is a sense of hopefulness that, as young men, they would survive and get back to their homes; this was despite the despair many of them felt at losing four years of their lives as prisoners.
Forty Two Months In Durance Vile
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Author : R. Keith Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Robert Hale
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Forty Two Months In Durance Vile written by R. Keith Mitchell and has been published by Robert Hale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with History categories.
A first-hand account of life as a Japanese prisoner during the Second World War which reveals how Mitchell was taken to Japan as part of an overseas force and set to work levelling agricultural land for an airfield, before being moved to work at the furnaces of a foundry, and then to a coal mine.
Prisoner Of Japan
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Author : Sir Harold Atcherley
language : en
Publisher: Mereo Books
Release Date : 2013-04-19
Prisoner Of Japan written by Sir Harold Atcherley and has been published by Mereo Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the course of the Second World War, more than a quarter of a million European and American soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese in Malaysia, the Dutch East Indies and the Pacific. They went on to suffer years of deprivation and brutality, most of them failing to survive at all. Harold Atcherley was fortunate enough to be one of the survivors. Throughout his time as a prisoner, from the fall of Singapore on 15th February 1942 until 14th September 1945, he kept a diary, which he was able to bring home with him. This book is based on that diary, along with other diaries and official documents. The original diary can now be viewed at The Imperial War Museum, London. He was fortunate enough to count among his friends and comrades the celebrated artist Ronald Searle, whose drawings have been used to illustrate his text; they give a far better impression of what life was like for a POW of the Japanese than mere words can, though neither words nor pictures could ever convey the appalling stench of disease and death on such a massive scale.
Long Night S Journey Into Day
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Author : Charles G. Roland
language : en
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2001-05-22
Long Night S Journey Into Day written by Charles G. Roland and has been published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-22 with History categories.
"Based largely on hundreds of interviews with former POWs, as well as material culled from archives around the world, Professor Roland details the extremes the prisoners endured - from having to eat fattened maggots in order to live to choosing starvation by trading away their skimpy rations for cigarettes."--BOOK JACKET.