Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415309516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415309561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415309554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415309547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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ISBN: 9780415309523
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415309523
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Author: Leslie G. Hall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780864177865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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An account of POW's on the Burma Railway as told by one of the survivors.

Author: David Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108577512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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Like its Nuremberg counterpart, the Tokyo Trial was foundational in the field of international law. However, until now, the persistent notion of 'victor's justice' in the existing historical literature has made it difficult to treat it as such. David Cohen and Yuma Totani seek to redress this by cutting through persistent orthodoxies and ideologies that have plagued the trial. Instead they present it simply as a judicial process, and in so doing reveal its enduring importance for international jurisprudence. A wide range of primary sources are considered, including court transcripts, court exhibits, the majority judgment, and five separate concurring and dissenting opinions. The authors also provide comparative analysis of the Allied trials at Nuremberg, resulting in a comprehensive and empirically grounded study of the trial. The Tokyo Tribunal was a watershed moment in the history of the Asia-Pacific region. This groundbreaking study reveals it is of continuing relevance today.

Author: Richard Reid
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642399502
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Author: Lt. Colonel Alfred Knights
Publisher: Arena books
ISBN: 1909421006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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This book presents one of the most vivid descriptions of day-to-day life in a Japanese POW labour camp to have appeared so far. The story follows the experiences of the Norfolk Territorial Regiment from 1942 to 1945, under the command of Lt. Col. Knights, during and after the fall of Singapore. Many will recollect having seen the film, The Bridge on The River Kwai. It tended to fictionalise certain matters of fact. This book, drawn directly from a memoir only recently uncovered, reveals that the Japanese designed railway was successfully completed with the forced labour of Allied troops in conjunction with Chinese and Malay captives. The Royal Norfolks were allocated a section of the line which required excavating deep cuttings in the rock hills parallel with the river. They had their 'own' camp with a Japanese officer in charge. He constantly pressed for quicker progress, and for work to be done by all the prisoners, including those in the camp hospital and their officers, contrary to international law. The Regiment's experiences are reported by Lt. Col. Knights in his book. He gives details of his own and others' sufferings, both those inflicted by their captors and those occurring from tropical diseases and insects, all being worsened by a lack of medicines and food. Some of the local Thais, at great risk to themselves, provided a little of both of those commodities. After the railway was completed, the survivors were marched back into Thailand. There they were required to dig a deep ditch round their camp. It was suspected that this would be their grave when they were shot, if the Japanese decided that they had lost the war. Fortunately the two atomic bombs resulted in the Japanese Emperor himself announcing their surrender, forestalling that action. The final chapters of the book are filled with excitement and tension in the efforts of the British officers to hoodwink their captors.