| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 W38 1993 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13696 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 899508936 (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 - Waterford, Van
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Prisoners of the Japanese in World War II :
- Remainder of title - statistical history, personal narratives, and memorials concerning POWs in camps and on hellships, civilian internees, Asian slave laborers, and others captured in the Pacific theater /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Van Waterford
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Jefferson, NC :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - McFarland & Co.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1994.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xi, 394 p. :
- Dimensions - 24 x 16 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - A comprehensive, scholarly work on all the types of prisoners of the Japanese: POW's, civilian internees, Asian slave labourers, and prisoners in jails. The author survived with about 800 others when 5,500 men perished with the torpedoed Junyo Maru hell
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - An important reference for any researcher interested in prisoners of war and civilian internees in Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War. This book is a source of basic information and references on prisoners of war, Asian forced laborers, prison ships and prison camps. Comprehensive and factual, with much on the Philippines. The author was himself a prisoner of war, a Dutch national who was born in the Netherlands East Indies and was a prisoner of war for 3½ years; he was only 16 when the war started. He survived the sinking of the prison ship Junyo Maru in September 1944. - 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 - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Asian forced labor
- Uncontrolled term - civilian internees
- Uncontrolled term - hell ships
- Uncontrolled term - POW camps
- Uncontrolled term - POWs in Asia and the Pacific
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