TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Kovner, Sarah
TI  - Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps
SN  - 9780674737617
AV  - D805.J3 K68  
PY  - 2020///
CY  -  Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
KW  -  Prisoners of war
KW  - Europe
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - United States
KW  - Australia
KW  - Asia
N2  - In just five months, from the airstrikes on Pearl Harbor to the fall of Corregidor, the Empire of Japan took prisoner more than 140,000 Allied servicemen and 130,000 civilians from a dozen different countries. In the ensuing chaos, all of them had to find a way to live -- or die -- in hundreds of camps spread across thousands of miles, from Manchuria to Manila, from Singapore to Nagasaki. Forty percent of American servicemen did not survive, and more Australians died in captivity than were killed in combat. Based on archives and interviews in eight countries and five languages, Prisoners of the Empire shows not just how POWs survived, but why they had to endure such a terrible ordeal
ER  -