Prisoners of the empire : inside Japanese POW camps /

Prisoners of the empire : inside Japanese POW camps / Sarah Kovner.

"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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Kovner, Sarah (Sarah C.), 1973- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Prisoners of war > Europe.
Prisoners of war > United States.
Prisoners of war > Australia.
Prisoners of war > Asia.
Prisoners of war.
Japan > History > 1926-1945.
Asia.
Australia.
Europe.
Japan.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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