Prisoners of the empire : inside Japanese POW camps /
"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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| 語言: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2020.
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書本目錄:
- 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.