Trapped With the Enemy: Four Years a Civilian P.O.W. in Japan [Hardcover]

James O. Thomas (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corp; First Edition edition (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401044131
• ISBN-13: 978-1401044138
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,622,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The forgotten heroes of the Pacific War, September 9, 2002

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Roger Mansell (Los Altos CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trapped With the Enemy: Four Years a Civilian P.O.W. in Japan (Hardcover)

"Trapped with the Enemy" is a well written and graphically descriptive story of the American civilians seized when Guam fell to the Japanese two days after Pearl Harbor. Rarely mentioned in any war histories were these American civilians sent as contractors to build up the defenses of Guam or the men who serviced the glamorous Pan American "Clippers" that reached from San Francisco to Hong Kong.

Captured and forgotten, Thomas and his fellow prisoners ran the gamut of emotions from exhilaration when they saw Doolittle's bombers streak across Kobe... to the abject fear when firebombs rained down to destroy the once mighty Japan. Courage and faith kept them together as their bodies wasted from starvation. The war's end came only days before they were slated for execution.

"Trapped with the Enemy" is one of the finest books relating the POW story since Gavin Daws put pen to paper.

Roger Mansell
Director
Center for Research
Allied POWS Under The Japanese
Los Altos California

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A True Story, April 8, 2006

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Virginia A. Dargen - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trapped With the Enemy: Four Years a Civilian P.O.W. in Japan (Hardcover)

My grandfather was a civilian during WWII and was one of those "Trapped with the Enemy". James O Thomas tells in detail of these years and the hardship that the prisoners encountered. Thank you for a gift to our family. This is history that we had only heard as short stories from grandpa.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Civilian Internees from Guam in Japanese POW camp, December 4, 2002

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George Sidline (Tigard, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trapped With the Enemy: Four Years a Civilian P.O.W. in Japan (Hardcover)

This is a riveting book. A must read for anyone with an interest in WWII, particularly in the Pacific. This story deserves to be widely publicized as it describes a POW situation hardly known or remembered.

Well written by the survivor who experienced it first hand.