The American Pows
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Prisoners Of The Empire
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Author : Sarah Kovner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Prisoners Of The Empire written by Sarah Kovner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with categories.
Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sarah Kovner shows poorly trained guards and rogue commanders inflicted the most horrific damage. Camps close to centers of imperial power tended to be less violent, and many POWs died from friendly fire.
The American Pows
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Author : Samuel Kim
language : en
Publisher: Branden Books
Release Date : 1979-01
The American Pows written by Samuel Kim and has been published by Branden Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-01 with Fiction categories.
American Pows In World War Ii
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Author : Harry Spiller
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-03-10
American Pows In World War Ii written by Harry Spiller and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with History categories.
These accounts describe the battle and POW experiences of twelve American military men captured by either Germany or Japan during World War II. Brutality, frostbite, disease, hunger, strenuous working conditions, and the jubilation of release are presented in the words of the soldiers, who describe such events as the Bataan Death March, the battle for Wake Island, D-Day, and the Battle of the Bulge and vividly portray the camps where they watched their comrades in arms suffer and perish. The book also features photographs, maps, camp lists, and POW regulations.
Records Relating To Personal Participation In World War Ii
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Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Records Relating To Personal Participation In World War Ii written by United States. National Archives and Records Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Prisoners of war categories.
Dissenting Pows
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Author : Tom Wilber
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2021-04-22
Dissenting Pows written by Tom Wilber and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-22 with History categories.
A fresh look at the how US troops played a part in the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting controversies. As military personnel returned from captivity in 1973, Americans became riveted by POW coming-home stories. What had gone on behind these prison walls? Along with legends of lionized heroes who endured torture rather than reveal sensitive military information, there were news leaks suggesting that others had denounced the war in return for favorable treatment. What wasn't acknowledged, however, is that U.S. troop opposition to the war was vast and reached well into Hoa Loa Prison. Half a century after the fact, Dissenting POWs emerges to recover this history, and to discover what drove the factionalism in Hoa Lo. Looking into the underlying factional divide between pro-war “hardliners” and anti-war “dissidents” among the POWs, authors Wilber and Lembcke delve into the postwar American culture that created the myths of the Hero-POW and the dissidents blamed for the loss of the war. What they found was surprising: It wasn’t simply that some POWs were for the war and others against it, nor was it an officers-versus-enlisted-men standoff. Rather, it was the class backgrounds of the captives and their pre-captive experience that drew the lines. After the war, the hardcore hero-holdouts—like John McCain—moved on to careers in politics and business, while the dissidents faded from view as the antiwar movement, that might otherwise have championed them, disbanded. Today, Dissenting POWs is a necessary myth-buster, disabusing us of the revisionism that has replaced actual GI resistance with images of suffering POWs—ennobled victims that serve to suppress the fundamental questions of America’s drift to endless war.
Long Hard Road
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Author : Thomas Saylor
language : en
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Release Date : 2008-10-14
Long Hard Road written by Thomas Saylor and has been published by Minnesota Historical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-14 with History categories.
Scores of WWII POWs offer lessons of wartime as they remember the terror and hardship of their days in captivity.
Building The Death Railway
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Author : Robert Sherman La Forte
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1993
Building The Death Railway written by Robert Sherman La Forte and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Generosity amid the greatest cruelty, Building the Death Railway gives the American perspective on events that shocked the world.
Going Free
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Author : Hampton Sides
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-01-20
Going Free written by Hampton Sides and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-20 with History categories.
From Hampton Sides’s Ghost Soldiers, a gripping narrative of World War II POWs on the brink of freedom. The men of Cabanatuan had been held by the Japanese since the Bataan Death March, in increasingly dire circumstances. With the war turning in the Americans’ favor, the POWs worried that their captors would murder them all in the frenzy of an all-out withdrawal. Then one day in early January, 1945, the prison guards simply left. For a brief moment the haggard survivors of Cabanatuan were given the keys to their prison, though swift death was promised to anyone who dared leave. The prisoners waited nervously, all while (unbeknownst to them) a daring raid was being planned which would result in their rescue or their end. This is Hampton Sides at his most riveting, a fitting tribute to these soldiers who would be prisoners no more. An eBook short.
The Son Tay Raid
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Author : John Gargus
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2010
The Son Tay Raid written by John Gargus and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Raid conception -- Raid training and planning -- Preparations in Southeast Asia -- The Son Tay mission -- The Vietnamese story about the Raid -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Tabular lists of participants, equipment, and chronology.
Profiles In Survival
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Author : John C. Shively
language : en
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Release Date : 2011
Profiles In Survival written by John C. Shively and has been published by Indiana Historical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The stories of seven men and one woman from Indiana who survived the horrors of captivity under the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II are captured in vivid detail. These Hoosiers were ordered to surrender following the fall of Bataan and Corregidor in 1942. It was the largest surrender of American armed forces in U.S. history and the beginning of three years of hell starting with the infamous Bataan Death March, facing brutal conditions in POW camps in the Philippines, and horrific journeys to Japan for some onboard what came to be known as “hellships.” Former Indiana governor Edgar D. Whitcomb, one of those featured in the book, notes that the American prisoners had to endure “unimaginable misery and brutality at the hands of sadistic Japanese guards,” as they were routinely beaten and many were executed for the most minor offenses, or for mere sport. In addition to Whitcomb, those profiled include Irvin Alexander, Harry Brown, William Clark, James Duckworth, Eleanor Garen, Melvin McCoy, and Hugh Sims.