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050 0 0 _aD805.J3
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082 0 0 _a940.547252
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100 1 _aKovner, Sarah
_q(Sarah C.),
_d1973-
_eauthor.
_961195
245 1 0 _aPrisoners of the empire :
_binside Japanese POW camps /
_cSarah Kovner.
260 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c2020.
300 _a328 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
520 _a"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"--
526 8 _aAAL
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xPrisoners and prisons, Japanese.
_961196
650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_zEurope.
_961197
650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_zUnited States.
_961198
650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_zAustralia.
_961199
650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_zAsia.
_961200
651 0 _aJapan
_xHistory
_y1926-1945.
_957352
852 1 _aAyesha Abed Library
_cGeneral Stacks
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