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Prisoners of the Japanese; POWs of World War II in the Pacific

Prisoners of the Japanese; POWs of World War II in the Pacific

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Prisoners of the Japanese; POWs of World War II in the Pacific

by Gavan Daws

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ISBN 10
0688118127
ISBN 13
9780688118129
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New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, 1994 William Morrow and Company, New York. 1994. Hardcover. 3rd Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light soiling to textblock fore edge. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($25.00); light rubbing to panels. Black Boards with red cloth overlay on the spine with silver lettering and shadowboxing on spine. Maps as endpapers. 462 pp 8vo. This book on the POWs of Japanese in World War II is the product of 10 years of documentary research and hundreds of interviews with surviving POWs, the last remnants of the over 140,000 Allied prisoners of which 25% would die from preventable diseases at the hands of the Japanese for which the japanese Government even today refuses to admit mass atrocities against POWs. Another 25% of those held captive were killed by friendly fire ordered by GEN MacArthur. This book tells a heartening story of an army's struggle to survive against incredible odds. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

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Bookseller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
008106
Title
Prisoners of the Japanese; POWs of World War II in the Pacific
Author
Gavan Daws
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
0688118127
ISBN 13
9780688118129
Publisher
William Morrow and Company
Place of Publication
New York, NY
Date Published
1994
Size
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords
World War II, Japan, Japanese Army, Prisoners of War, POWs, POW Camps, Japanese maltreatment of prisoners of war, malnutrition, Bataan Death March, Corregidor, General Douglas MacArthur, atrocities, slave labor, Burma-Siam railway,
Bookseller catalogs
Prisoner of War; Biographies;

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