| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
KF 228 .J36 P37 2006 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13796 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 1591142040 (softbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Parkinson, James W.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Soldier slaves :
- Remainder of title - abandoned by the White House, courts, and congress /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - James W. Parkinson and Lee Benson
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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. - c2006.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xiv, 236 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 23 x 16 cm.
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Two stories presented side by side: the sufferings endured by American veterans of Bataan and Corregidor in the defense of the Philippines, 1941-1942 and subsequent prisoner of war experience, and the legal battle from the late 1990s to the early 2000s for compensation from the Japanese companies which forced them to work. Alternate chapters deal with first the near present (1999) and the wartime experiences. The lead author, Parkinson, was the head lawyer in the case of the POWs against the Japanese companies (giants such as Mitsui and Mitsubishi); Benson is a professional journalist. They visited veterans, battle sites and war commemorations while fighting it out in the courts. In the end, the US government did not support the veterans' claims; as in 1942-1944, they were abandoned by their government, the authors point out. - 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 - Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Ex-prisoners of war
- General subdivision - Legal status, laws, etc.
- Geographic subdivision - United States.
- 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 - Japanese atrocities
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese companies and forced labor
- Uncontrolled term - legal cases regarding POWs
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - POW compensation cases
- Uncontrolled term - POW experiences
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Benson, Lee
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