Civilian Prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippine Islands
Title | Civilian Prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippine Islands PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Turner Publishing Company |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Prisoners of war |
ISBN | 1563118386 |
Forgotten Heroes
Title | Forgotten Heroes PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Paul Onorato |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Prisoners of war |
ISBN |
Captured
Title | Captured PDF eBook |
Author | Frances B. Cogan |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2012-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820343528 |
More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to internment camps following Japan's late December 1941 victories in Manila. Captured tells the story of daily life in five different camps--the crowded housing, mounting familial and international tensions, heavy labor, and increasingly severe malnourishment that made the internees' rescue a race with starvation. Frances B. Cogan explores the events behind this nearly four-year captivity, explaining how and why this little-known internment occurred. A thorough historical account, the book addresses several controversial issues about the internment, including Japanese intentions toward their prisoners and the U.S. State Department's role in allowing the presence of American civilians in the Philippines during wartime. Supported by diaries, memoirs, war crimes transcripts, Japanese soldiers' accounts, medical data, and many other sources, Captured presents a detailed and moving chronicle of the internees' efforts to survive. Cogan compares living conditions within the internment camps with life in POW camps and with the living conditions of Japanese soldiers late in the war. An afterword discusses the experiences of internment survivors after the war, combining medical and legal statistics with personal anecdotes to create a testament to the thousands of Americans whose captivity haunted them long after the war ended.
Records Relating to Personal Participation in World War II
Title | Records Relating to Personal Participation in World War II PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Archives and Records Administration |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Prisoners of war |
ISBN |
Three Year Picnic
Title | Three Year Picnic PDF eBook |
Author | Evelyn Whitfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Prisoners of the Japanese in World War II
Title | Prisoners of the Japanese in World War II PDF eBook |
Author | Van Waterford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Narratives and facts on life in civilian internment centers and POW camps are presented here.
Spirits Unbroken
Title | Spirits Unbroken PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Renton Hind |
Publisher | |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1946 |
Genre | Camp Holmes (Baguio, Philippines : Concentration camp) |
ISBN |