| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805.P16 D38 1994 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14031 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 688118127 (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 - Daws, Gavan
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Prisoners of the Japanese :
- Remainder of title - POWS of World War II in the Pacific /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Gavan Daws.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Quill,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1994.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 462 p. :
- Other physical details - some ill.,
- Dimensions - 25 x 17 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - An important work covering the Allied prisoner of war experiences under the Japanese, making comparisons and pointing out commonalities, rather than narrating the experiences of individual POWs separately. He provides an overview to Japanese POW policy and execution, and how the POWs were able to survive. Based on interviews and primary sources, as well as published memoirs, the result of over ten years of research, this is a key work for anyone seeking to study the prisoners of war under Japan, regardless of where they were captured. Contains much on the Philippines, and makes many disturbing revelations, such as MacArthur's seeming lack of concern for POWs as some of them were killed by "friendly fire." Daws is an Australian historian and popular writer, married to a Hawaiian-born American. - 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
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th Century.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Pacific area
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th Century.
- 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 - Allied POWs of the Japanese
- Uncontrolled term - atrocities against POWs
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese POW policy
- Uncontrolled term - POW life
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