Reassessing the Japanese prisoner of war experience
the Changi POW camp, Singapore, 1942-45
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Author
Publication
2003 - RoutledgeCurzon, London, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
54,000 words, Guess
Page Count
216 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3564582M
- ISBN-100700716572
- OCLC Control Number252868187
- OCLC Control Number50693021
- Library of Congress Control Number2002035263
and 2 more
- LibraryThing6799995
- Goodreads4536360
Classifications
- DDC940.54/7252/095957
- LCCD805.C33 H39 2003
Description
Popular perceptions of life in Japanese prisoner of war camps are dominated by images of emaciated figures, engaged in slave labour, and badly treated by their captors. This book, based on extensive original research, shows that this view is quite wrong in relation to the large camp at Changi, which was the main POW camp in Singapore. It demonstrates that in Changi the Japanese afforded the captives a high degree of autonomy, that this in turn resulted in a prison camp society that grew and flourished, in contrast to other Japanese POW camps, and that it fostered an independent and combative spirit, and high morale.
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