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1 online resource (169 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Long Heartbreak Begins; Chapter 2. Voyage to a Frozen Hell and Deadly Camp; Chapter 3. Man in a Cage: The Unit 731 Doctors Come to Mukden; Chapter 4. Unit 731 Doctors Call Again and Again; Chapter 5. The Colonel's Rules and His "Hospital"; Chapter 6. The MKK Factory: Daily Toil, Fear, and Sabotage; Chapter 7. Major Stanley Hankins: A Major Military Embarrassment; Chapter 8. Escape; Chapter 9. Red Cross Double-Crossed; Chapter 10. Another Escape: An Ongoing Mystery. |
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Chapter 11. B-29s Bring Death, Hope, and RescueChapter 12. The Long Road Back; Chapter 13. Justice in the Aftermath?; Chapter 14. Back in Time; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
In World War II, over 36,000 American men, mostly military but some civilian, were thrown into Japanese POW camps and forced to labor for companies working for Japan s war effort. At Japan s largest fixed military prison camp, Mitsubishi s huge factory complex at Mukden, Manchuria, more than 2,000 American prisoners where subjected to cold, starvation, beatings, and even medical experiments, while manufacturing parts for Zero fighter planes. Those lucky enough to survive required the efforts of an OSS rescue team and a special recovery unit to make it home alive. Holmes, who spent two decades t. |
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Mukden (Prisoner of war camp)
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Mitsubishi Zaibatsu -- History.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Japan.
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Prisoners of war -- Japan.
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Prisoners of war -- United States.
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Shenyang (Liaoning Sheng, China) -- History, Military -- 20th century.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Holmes, Linda Goetz. Guests of the emperor : the secret history of Japan's Mukden POW camp. Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, ©2010 xiv, 147 pages 9781591143772 |
| ISBN |
9781612513829 (electronic bk.) |
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1612513824 (electronic bk.) |
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