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Foo
A Japanese-American Prisoner of the Rising Sun The Secret Prison Diary of Frank "Foo" Fujita
by Stanley L. Falk
ISBN: 0929398467
ISBN-13: 9780929398464
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
Published date: 1993
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.8 pounds
Publisher's Notes
During his time as a POW, Frank "Foo" Fujita kept a diary of daily happenings, embellished with drawings of life in the camp. He secreted the diary in the walls of his barracks, as the practice was forbidden. That diary forms the basis of these memoirs. Fujita's memoirs are also unique in that he was one of the fewer than nine hundred Americans taken prisoner on the island of Java. The bulk of American POWs in Japanese hands surrendered in the Philippines, and most of the published POW memoirs reflect their experience. Fujita's account of the defense of Java and of the fate of the "Lost Battalion" of Texas artillerymen serves to distinguish this memoir from others. At one point while a POW in Japan, Fujita was forced to be part of the Japanese radio group broadcasting propaganda. After the war, he testified at some of the war crime trials in San Francisco, and the diary on which this book is based was used as evidence in those trials.
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Foo. A Japanese-American Prisoner of the Rising Sun
Fujita, Frank "Foo
Denton TX: University of North Texas Press, 1993. Hardcover xviii + 371pp, b/w photos and illustrations scattered throughout text, index, DJ. Author's memoir based on his diary of daily happenings, embellished w/ drawings of life in the POW on the island of Java and in Japan during WW II. Very good +. ( more information) Offered by Columbia Trading Co. (United States)
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Foo. A Japanese-American Prisoner Of The Rising Sun. The Secret Prison Diary Of Frank "Foo" Fujita
Fujita, Frank
Published by University Of North Texas Press, Denton, TX, 1993. First Edition. Binding is: Hardcover. . Book condition: As New. /Jacket condition: As New. . Standard Book Size. First Edition. Hardcover. The memoirs of Frank Fujita as a prisoner of war in World War II. Notes by Stanley L. Falk. Introduction by Robert Wear. Illustrated with photographs. 371 pages, index. Dust jacket and book are in Fine, as new, condition. ( more information) Offered by Quinn & Davis Booksellers (United States)
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