Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Eaten By the Japanese Eaten By the Japanese John Baptist Crasta Account of an Indian soldier employed in the Imperial British Army. OL1074438W
The real Tenko The real Tenko Mark Felton "This book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women by the Japanese occupation forces. While a number of memoirs have been published there is no dedicated volum… OL16617281W
The promise of rain The promise of rain Donna Milner Howard Coulter was one of hundreds of Canadian soldiers sent to the Far East following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. He became a POW, moving from camp to notorious camp, watching his friends … OL17872766W
Flyboys Flyboys James Bradley This acclaimed bestseller brilliantly illuminates a hidden piece of World War II history as it tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific. One of them, George H. … OL211765W
Hell on earth Hell on earth Dave McIntosh x, 277 p., [8] p. of plates : 24 cm OL2288977W
We survived We survived Nell van de Graaff With the Japanese invasion of Indonesia imminent, Nell van de Graaff, accompanied by her three small children, fled her home on a Dutch military base and sought safety in the mountains of West Java. … OL4506523W
Some survived Some survived Manny Lawton Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American … OL5365265W
South to Bataan, north to Mukden South to Bataan, north to Mukden Brougher, William Edward This is the story of General William Edward Brougher and his four years of captivity during WWII. Diaries were not allowed in the prison camps, but Brougher wrote on thin notebooks that he rolled up … OL6700204W