Dimensions
155 x 236 x 33mm
Gavan Daws combined ten years of documentary research and hundreds of interviews with POWs on three continents to write this shattering re-creation of the experience of Allied POWs of World War II in the Pacific.
The Japanese army took over 140,000 military prisoners and one in four died at the hands of their captors. Drawing directly on the vivid memories of survivors, Daws brings the reader heartbreakingly close to the atrocities of the Burma-Siam railway and the Bataan death march, the horrors of Japanese medical experiments, the struggles of POWs to stay alive and remain human, the permanent scars that the survivors carry, and the incomprehensible refusal of their own governments to support their attempts to get an apology from Japan.
This great book, written by one of the most gifted of Australian historians, whose work is known and respected worldwide, has never been published in Australia. Daws has researched and written independent of any military officials to give the human side of official history.
'Prisoners Of The Japanese' is the story which was missing in action: the truth of life according to the POW.
