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

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.54 KOVNER    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  940.5472 KOVNER    Check Shelf
Description 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject 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.
Japan -- History -- 1926-1945.
Prisoners of war. (OCoLC)fst01077227
Asia. (OCoLC)fst01240495
Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543
Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Chronological Term 1926-1945
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780674737617 hardcover
067473761X hardcover
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