| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 M52 2001 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13689 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 1557504822 (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Michno, Gregory F.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Death on the hellships :
- Remainder of title - prisoners at sea in the Pacific War /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Gregory F. Michno
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Annapolis, MD :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Naval Institute Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2001.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xiv, 366 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 24 x 16 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - A comprehensive and definitive book on the ships (usually dirty and unkempt) used by the Japanese to transport white prisoners of war from conquered areas (including the Philippines) to Japan or other Japanese-controlled areas. Thousands of prisoners of war died on these journeys due to cruelty of the guards, or when sunk by allied submarines or aircraft. The ships were unmarked, thus making them indistinguishable from ships carrying war cargo. As a result, several were attacked, the pilots or commanders not knowing they carried prisoners of war.
An appendix lists the hellship voyages and numbers of prisoners who died in them. Michno is a naval historian whose father served on a World War II submarine. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- General subdivision - Transportation
- Geographic subdivision - Pacific Ocean.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Atrocities.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Japan
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th Century.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese atrocities
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese hell ships (POW ships)
- Uncontrolled term - POW experiences
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