Ships from Hell: Japanese War Crimes on the High Seas by Lamont-Brown, Raymond - 2002

Sutton Publishing Limited, United Kingdom, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition (ex-library)/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 174 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust jacket has been protected by it's library plastic cover.. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Library stamps etc only on endpapers, half-title page.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. More than 140,000 Caucasian PoWs fell to the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy in the Second World War. Many of these men were shipped to the Japanese main islands for slave labour, in seaborne transports crammed with PoWs in their airless holds, and stricken with disease. Countless hundreds of Allied troops and civilians died at sea. Sick, starved, suffocated, tortured and massacred when they became a nuisance, or killed when the unmarked transports were bombed by the Allies, the prisoners experienced unbelievable horrors. Raymond Lamont-Brown's chilling account also covers the barbaric actions of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the wake of its attacks on Allied merchant shipping, from the ramming of lifeboats, attacks on hospital ships, the machine-gunning of survivors in the water, to the beheading of naval captives. Whereas many other accounts of Japanese atrocities have concentrated on the fate of PoWs on land, the author has researched original Japanese records and drawn on eyewitness accounts to write this frightening account of Japanese barbarity against defenceless prisoners of war at sea. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; 1940s; ISBN: 0750927194. ISBN/EAN: 9780750927192. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7601. . 9780750927192