Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Prisoner of the rising sun Prisoner of the rising sun Stanley Wort "I was told that because a regular signalman had failed to return from leave, and because mine was the last name alpabetically on the list of new boys, I was being sent in his place."When the author … OL15457911W
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
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
Burma Railway Medicine Burma Railway Medicine Geoff GILL,M. E. G. PARKES xiv, 255 pages : 25 cm OL25743224W
Surviving the sword Surviving the sword Brian MacArthur During World War II, there were few fates that could befall a soldier so hellish as internment in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. To this day, many survivors -- most of whom are now in their 80s -- … OL4835445W
The literal imagination The literal imagination Ian P. Watt "This volume brings together previously uncollected essays by Ian Watt, one of the major literary critics of the later twentieth century, famed equally for his distinguished work on Joseph Conrad and… OL505964W
Death march Death march Donald Knox Interviews with survivors recound the horrible conditions American soldiers encountered as Japanese prisioners of war in the Philippines and in labor camps in Japan. OL5478495W
Conduct under fire Conduct under fire John Glusman A gripping chronicle of courage in captivity, of sacrifice and survival, Conduct Under Fire recounts the fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor through the eyes of the author’s father and th… OL5843957W
You'll die In Singapore You'll die In Singapore Charles McCormac With sixteen other POWs, author Charles McCormac broke out from his POW camp in Japanese-occupied Singapore and began a two-thousand-mile escape from Singapore, through the jungles of Indonesia to Au… OL5879814W
First into Nagasaki First into Nagasaki George Weller George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize--winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war's end in September 1945, under General MacArthur's media blackout, correspond… OL8552937W