Hidden horrors : Japanese war crimes in World War II
Yuki Tanaka
Prijs:
VERKOCHT
ISBN:
9780813327174
Jaar:
1996
Kwaliteit:
Zeer goed
Uitgever:
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996.
Beschrijving:
xix, 267 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; . Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-249) and index.; gebonden - bound - hard cover; met stofomslag - with dust wrappers - dust jacket
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"This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. Another chapter traces the fate of 65 shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers. Thirty-two other nurses, who landed on another island, were captured and sent to Sumatra to become "comfort women"--Prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs died in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945. Those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. Only six esc
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