Japanese Prisoners of War - Couverture rigide

Towle, Philip

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1852851929 ISBN 13 : 9781852851927

Editeur : Hambledon Continuum, 1999

Synopsis

During World War II the Japanese were stereotyped in the European imagination as fanatical, cruel, almost inhuman - an image reflected in most books and films about prisoner of war in the Far East. While the Japanese certainly treated those they captured badly, behaving far worse to Chinese and native captives than to Europeans, the conventional view of the Japanese is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognize that the Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis trial, at a particular period of their history, and that their attitudes were influenced by a combination of their perception of their own racial identity mixed with a powerful historical tradition. This collection of essays, by both western and Japanese scholars, aims to see the question from a historical viewpoint, and from both a western and Japanese perspective, looking at it in the light of both longer-term influences, notably the Japanese attempt to establish themselves as an honorary white race. The essays also examine particular instances. Conditions in the almost self-run camp at Changi contrasted remarkably with those on the Burma Railway, where disease and a failure to provide supplies caused terrible suffering. The book also addresses the other side of the question, looking at the treatment of Japanese prisoners in Allied captivity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Philip Towle is a former Director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hambledon Continuum
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852851929
• ISBN 13: 9781852851927
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie