Isbn: 9789810081256 - snaring the other tiger (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. How the Australian authorities tracked down and hanged in 1951 a Japanese war criminal, Lt Gen Nishimura, second only to Yamashita, after the US ceased its pursuits. Yet the judicial proceedings were flawed and covered up. Photos and diagrams. 347 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £7.20. …

paperback. Zustand: Good. . Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Dispatch within 24hrs from the UK. Book.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. This copy feels unread. Ian Ward investigates the controversial trial and execution of Japanese Lieutenant-General Takuma Nishimura for his alleged responsibility for the 1942 Parit Sulong massacre in Malaya. Drawing on wartime records and previously restricted documents, Ward argues that serious problems existed with the evidence and conduct of the Australian war-crimes proceedings that led to Nishimura's execution in 1951. The book examines the massacre, the post-war investigation and the role of New Zealand-born prosecutor James Gowing Godwin. Ward's conclusions later became controversial themselves, with subsequent historians challenging important parts of his case.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 347 pages. Shamed by the United States into abandoning her floundering war crimes trials and investigations, Australia decided to have one last attempt at snaring the o ther tiger. The original tiger of Malaya was, of course, the victorious Lt. Gene ral Tomoyuki Yamashita, commander of Japan's 25th Army who was ultimately execut ed by the Americans. The other tiger was Lt. General Takuma Nishimura, commander of Japan's elite Konoye Imperial Guards Division, Emperor Hirohito's personal t roops. The Australians decided his fate with a secret judicial lynching on Manus Island. Ian Ward's book is accompanied by two appendices of telling documents t he military ordered withheld from public release.…