Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) 1st Edition

by Kevin Blackburn (Editor), Karl Hack (Editor)

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ISBN-13: 978-0415690058

ISBN-10: 0415690056

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Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death Railway’ between Burma and Thailand. Some camps had death rates below 1 per cent, others of over 20 per cent. While POWs were deployed far and wide as a captive labour force, civilian internees were generally detained locally.

This book explores differences in how captivity was experienced between 1941 and 1945, and has been remembered since: differences due to geography and logistics, to policies and personalities, and marked by nationality, age, class, gender and combatant status. Part One has at least one chapter for each ‘National Memory’, Australian, British, Canadian, Dutch, Indian and American. Part Two moves on to forgotten captivities. It covers women, children, camp guards, internee experiences upon the end of the war, and local heroines who fought back.

By juxtaposing such a wide variety of captivity experiences – differentiated both by category of captive and by approach - this book transcends place, to become a collection about captivity as a category. It will interest scholars working on the Asia-Pacific War, on captivities in general, and on the individual histories of the countries and groups covered.

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"Recommended. Most levels/libraries." -- CHOICE, Jan 2009 Vol 46. No. 05

'...this collection is a useful contribution not just to the field of wartime Southeast Asia, but to the social history of war generally.' - BEATRICE TREFALT, Monash University, Japanese Studies 29/1

About the Author

Karl Hack is Lecturer in History at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England.

Kevin Blackburn is Associate Professor in History, Humanities and Social Studies Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (October 11, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 328 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415690056
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415690058
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.74 x 9.21 inches

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We need Iris Chang's sequel to Nanking to be completed - to bring all the pieces together so we can understand what happened. Its no good to have it all out there in these separate parts and be expected to spend DECADES figuring it out by ourselves.

We need a big collection.

This kind of personalized hatred and sadism towards total strangers who might not have even been able to locate Japan on a map ....

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