Prisoners of the empire : inside Japanese POW camps

Kovner, Sarah (Sarah C.) 1973- (author.).

Summary: "In just five months, from the airstrikes on Pearl Harbor to the fall of Corregidor, the Empire of Japan took prisoner more than 140,000 Allied servicemen and 130,000 civilians from a dozen different countries. In the ensuing chaos, all of them had to find a way to live -- or die -- in hundreds of camps spread across thousands of miles, from Manchuria to Manila, from Singapore to Nagasaki. Forty percent of American servicemen did not survive, and more Australians died in captivity than were killed in combat. Based on archives and interviews in eight countries and five languages, Prisoners of the Empire shows not just how POWs survived, but why they had to endure such a terrible ordeal"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780674737617
ISBN: 067473761X
ISBN: 9780674250192
ISBN: 0674250192
ISBN: 0674250214
ISBN: 9780674250215
Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: A history both familiar and strange -- From avatar of modernization to outlaw nation -- Singapore: a world gone topsy turvy -- The Philippines: commonwealth of hell -- A war of words -- Korea: life and death in a model camp -- Captivity on the home front -- Endings and beginnings -- Undue process -- Prisoners of history: renegotiating the Geneva Conventions in the wake of war -- Conclusion: Never again, and again.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost ebooks, viewed November 17, 2020).