Survival In Japanese Pow Camps With Changkol And Basket
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Survival In Japanese Pow Camps With Changkol And Basket
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Author : Ernest G. Darch
language : en
Publisher: London : Minerva
Release Date : 2000
Survival In Japanese Pow Camps With Changkol And Basket written by Ernest G. Darch and has been published by London : Minerva this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Prisoners of war categories.
Surviving A Japanese P O W Camp
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Author : Peter R. Wygle
language : en
Publisher: Ventura, CA : Pathfinder
Release Date : 1991
Surviving A Japanese P O W Camp written by Peter R. Wygle and has been published by Ventura, CA : Pathfinder this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Manila (Philippines) categories.
This is a touching and sometimes humorous story of an American family’s survival in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Eleven-year-old Peter Wygle's story and his father's diary create a poignant adventure that reads like a novel. This is a compelling story of the struggle to survive when the enemies were not only the Japanese, but also some fellow prisoners.
Digger S Story
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Author : David Barrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-03-28
Digger S Story written by David Barrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
How do you survive with your beaten starved and humiliated as a prisoner of war in a camp on the Thai Burma Railway? 'You stick together. That's what you do, ' says David Digger Barrett. 'You scam, lie, steal, cheat and hate the bastards with as much energy is you love and protect your mates.' David 'Digger' Barrett was given his nickname at an early age by his father. It was prophetic: as an eighteen-year-old looking for fun and adventure, he enlisted as a private and served in World War II. After surviving the Malayan campaign, he would spend over three years as a Japanese prisoner of war. It would take Digger more than fifty years to rid his mind of the hate he had for the guards of the Imperial Japanese Army. His story of courage, mateship and survival takes him from the prison camps of Thailand and Burma to the fight for reparations for all Australian POWs of the Japanese.
Apocalypse Undone
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Author : Preston John Hubbard
language : en
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Release Date : 1990
Apocalypse Undone written by Preston John Hubbard and has been published by Vanderbilt University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Apocalypse Undone recounts Preston Hubbard's four-and-a-half year odyssey from a young, idealistic CCC worker to a much older, troubled man full of contempt for war and those who make it. He survived the Bataan Death March; imprisonment at Camp O'Donnell, where the death rate exceded 400 a day; a jungle work detail on Tayabas Isthmus; the starvation diet of Manila's Bilibid Prison; a 17 day voyage to Japan on a Hell Ship; and a Japanese POW camp bombed by American planes.
Prisoners Of The Empire
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Author : Sarah Kovner
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Prisoners Of The Empire written by Sarah Kovner and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with History categories.
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.
Wwii Corregidor To Japan
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Author : Norace Whitecotton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Wwii Corregidor To Japan written by Norace Whitecotton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Missing Believed Killed
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Author : John Baxter
language : en
Publisher: Aurum Press
Release Date : 2010
Missing Believed Killed written by John Baxter and has been published by Aurum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Prisoners of war categories.
In 1942 corporal John Baxter, a royal engineer, was captured by the Japanese in Indonesia. For the next three years he was held as their prisoner, during which time he was starved; beaten; and contracted malaria, dysentry, and diphtheria, for which he received no treatment. He spent the last two years of the war working in the hard labor mines in Kyushu, from where he witnessed the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki 40 miles away, and felt the scorching wind from the blast. Remarkably Baxter survived these experiences, made it back to Britain, and in February 2009 he celebrated his 90th birthday. Having written up his diaries from this time, he has now decided to tell his story. It is a story not just of survival but of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and quiet heroism. Using his training as a heating engineer, he found numerous ways of helping to disrupt the Japanese war effort, for example by sabotaging rifles the guards gave him to repair. For other prisoners he built radios, cooking and lighting equipment, and artificial limbs. The book also offers revealing insights into the complex relationships between the prisoners and their guards, overturning many of the stereotypes we are often presented with—for example John managed to befriend a guards, who risked his life to bring him extra food rations.
Surviving The Day
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Author : Frank J. Grady
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 1997
Surviving The Day written by Frank J. Grady and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Prisoners of war categories.
Frank Grady's remarkable account of his years as a prisoner-of-war - his capture, his interrogations, his labor, his survival strategies - offers a riveting portrayal of the heroic efforts required to outlast a hellish war. As head of the U.S. Army's cryptography department in the Philippines handling all incoming and outgoing messages for generals Douglas MacArthur and Jonathan Wainwright, Grady was of special interest to the Japanese when captured in the spring of 1942. His memoir describes his first months as a POW in the infamous Cabanatuan camp and his subsequent transfer to Japan, where he attempted to outwit his interrogators about American cryptographic techniques. This book is more than the story of one man's survival. It is a moving account of wartime conditions that brought out the best and the worst in the prisoners, guards, and Japanese civilians. Grady perceptively depicts the uglier dimensions of human nature - betrayal, cowardice, greed, and wanton viciousness - but also celebrates the tenacity, intelligence, compassion, and determined good spirits that kept him and hundreds of other American prisoners alive in spite of severe malnourishment. From a murderous camp commander who was tried and hanged after the war to a kind civilian woman, Grady came into direct contact with far more Japanese than did most POWs, and he relates these encounters in detail. One of few Americans who saw Tokyo after the firebombing of March 1945, he also offers a personal glimpse of the destruction of the city. An unusual climax to the memoir comes when his own camp, near the port town of Kamaishi, is unknowingly destroyed by the U.S. Navy.
We Were Next To Nothing
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Author : Carl S. Nordin
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 1997
We Were Next To Nothing written by Carl S. Nordin and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
On December 1, 1941, the author's unit was sent to the southern Philippine island of Mindanao to establish an air base. Less than six months later, on May 10, 1942, Sergeant Nordin was captured by the Japanese.For two years he was imprisoned on Mindanao before boarding a Japanese hellship destined for Moji, Japan. He spent the remainder of the war working on the railroad in Yokkaichi. Throughout his time in captivity, the author detailed the conditions and his thoughts on the camps in a secret diary that became the basis of this work. This powerful story recounts the horrors of the prison camps, the torturous journey on the hellship, and the little things that provided him and his fellow prisoners the strength to survive.
Prisoners Of The Empire
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Author : Sarah C. Kovner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Prisoners Of The Empire written by Sarah C. Kovner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Electronic books categories.