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In the first disastrous months following Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Army took over 140,000 Allied prisoners. More than one in four of these POWs died at the hands of their captors.
They were denied medical treatment. They were starved. When the International Red Cross sent food and medicine, the Japanese looted the shipments. They sacrificed prisoners in medical experiments. They watched them die by the tens of thousands from diseases of malnutrition like beriberi, pellagra, and scurvy, and from the epidemic diseases of the tropics: malaria, dysentery, tropical ulcers, and cholera. Those who survived were slated to be worked to death.
If the war had lasted another twelve months, there would not have been a POW left alive. Prisoners of the Japanese raises disturbing questions as well about the value placed on the lives of Allied POWs by their own supreme command. Of all military prisoners who died in the Japanese zone of captivity, more than one in four were killed by "friendly fire" ordered by General Douglas MacArthur.
It is impossible not to be seized by the horror of the POWs' ordeal. But while the inhuman cruelty of the Japanese prison camps is documented exhaustively - beyond the shadow of a doubt - the book, at its core, tells a heartening story of ordinary men, trapped in impossible circumstances, not only struggling to survive but stubbornly, triumphantly asserting their humanity.
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Prisoners of war, Geallieerden, World War, 1939-1945, Krijgsgevangenen, Kriegsgefangener, Weltkrieg (1939-1945), Tweede Wereldoorlog, History, Japanese Prisoners and prisons, New York Times reviewed, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, japanesePlaces
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Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific
2006-01-01, SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD
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Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World WarII in the Pacific : the powerful untold story
1995, Robson
in English
0860519783 9780860519782
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Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific
1994, W. Morrow
in English
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0688118127 9780688118129
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Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific
1994, W. Morrow
in English
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0688118127 9780688118129
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