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Surviving The Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45 - Softcover

MacArthur, Brian

 
9780349119373: Surviving The Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0349119376 ISBN 13: 9780349119373
Verlag: Abacus, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Many of the prisoners held by the Japanese during the WWII were so scarred by their experiences that they could not discuss them even with their families. They believed that their brutal treatment was, literally, incomprehensible. But some prisoners were determined that posterity should know how they were starved and beaten, marched almost to death or transported on 'hellships', used as slave labour - most notoriously on the Burma-Thailand railway - and how thousands died from tropical diseases. They risked torture or execution to draw and write diaries that they hid wherever they could, sometimes burying them in the graves of lost comrades.
The diaries tell of inhumanity and degradation, but there are also inspirational stories of courage, comradeship and compassion. When men have unwillingly plumbed the depths of human misery, said one prisoner, the artist Ronald Searle, they form a silent understanding of what solidarity, friendship and kindness to others can mean. The diaries and interviews with surviving prisoners drawn on in SURVIVING THE SWORD will tell a new generation about that solidarity, friendship and kindness.

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Brian MacArthur is associate editor of THE TIMES. He was founder editor of TODAY and THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT and has been a journalist for forty years. He is the editor of three books on journalistic themes for Penguin.

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Verlag
Abacus
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349119376
ISBN 13 
9780349119373
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
512
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