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Japanese prisoners of war / / edited by Philip Towle, Margaret Kosuge and Yoichi Kibata



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Titolo: Japanese prisoners of war / / edited by Philip Towle, Margaret Kosuge and Yoichi Kibata Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; Rio Grande, Ohio : , : Hambledon Press, , 2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
Disciplina: 940.54/72
Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
Prisoners of war - Europe
Prisoners of war - United States
Prisoners of war - Australia
Prisoners of war - Southeast Asia
World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - Southeast Asia
World War, 1939-1945 - Conscript labor - Southeast Asia
Soggetto geografico: Southeast Asia History
Persona (resp. second.): TowlePhilip <1945->
KosugeMargaret
KibataYōichi <1946->
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Japanese Army and Prisoners of War; 2 The Changi POW Camp and the Burma-Thailand Railway; 3 Allied POWs and the Burma-Thailand Railway; 4 Understanding the Enemy: Military Intelligence, Political Warfare and Japanese Prisoners of War in Australia, 1942-45; 5 POWs and International Law; 6 Culture, Race and Power in Japan's Wartime Empire; 7 Japan's Racial Identity in the Second World War: The Cultural Context of Japanese Treatment of POWs; 8 Japanese Treatment of British Prisoners: The Historical Context
9 Religion, the Red Cross and Japanese Treatment of POWs10 The Post-War Treatment of Japanese Overseas Nationals; 11 Towards Reconciliation: Japanese Reactions to Ernest Gordon; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: During World War II the Japanese were stereotyped in the European imagination as fanatical, cruel, almost inhuman - an image reflected in most books and films about prisoner of war in the Far East. While the Japanese cetainly treated those they captured badly, behaving far worse to Chinese and native captives than to Europeans, the conventional view of the Japanese is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognize that the Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis trial, at a particular period of their history, and that their attitudes were influenced by a combination of th
Titolo autorizzato: Japanese prisoners of war  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-20196-8
9786613201966
0-8264-3978-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813464003321
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