01954cam a2200337 i 4500 512413882 TxGeo 20210907120000.0 200715s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020014679 9780674737617 hbk. 067473761X hbk. (OCoLC)1145432837 TxGeo rda Kovner, Sarah, 1973-, (Sarah C.) Prisoners of the empire : inside Japanese POW camps / Sarah Kovner. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2020. 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "In just five months, from the airstrikes on Pearl Harbor to the fall of Corregidor, the Empire of Japan took prisoner more than 140,000 Allied servicemen and 130,000 civilians from a dozen different countries. In the ensuing chaos, all of them had to find a way to live -- or die -- in hundreds of camps spread across thousands of miles, from Manchuria to Manila, from Singapore to Nagasaki. Forty percent of American servicemen did not survive, and more Australians died in captivity than were killed in combat. Based on archives and interviews in eight countries and five languages, Prisoners of the Empire shows not just how POWs survived, but why they had to endure such a terrible ordeal"-- Provided by publisher. 20210907. World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. Prisoners of war United States. Prisoners of war Australia. Prisoners of war. Japan History 1926-1945. QS5