With only the will to live : accounts of Americans in Japanese prison camps, 1941-1945 /

With only the will to live : accounts of Americans in Japanese prison camps, 1941-1945 /

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Of the 25,000 Americans held prisoner in the Pacific during World War II, over 40 percent died in captivity. Only those with luck and a tremendous will to live ever made it home. Surprisingly, however, no book has yet tried to convey, in the survivors' own words, the full range of what these se...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Himmel, Richard L., 1950-, La Forte, Robert S (Robert Sherman), 1933-, Marcello, Ronald E
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 1994
Wilmington, Del. : c1994
Wilmington, Del. : ©1994
Subjects:
World War (1939-1945)
1939 - 1945
1939-1945
Oral history
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Asia, Southeastern
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Southeast Asia
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
Concentration camps
Internment camps
Southeast Asia
Histoires orales
Oral histories
Personal narratives > American
oral histories (literary works)
Table of Contents:
  • Cont.): General treatment
  • the physical (p.113). Transportation (p.116)
  • Housing and camp layout (p.121)
  • Work (p.131)
  • Food (p.150)
  • Clothing (p.167)
  • Personal hygiene (p.171)
  • Health and medical treatment (p.177)
  • Death and burial (p.189)
  • General treatment
  • the psychological (p.197). Boredom, holidays, and rest (p.199)
  • Recreation and entertainment (p.201)
  • Morale (p.208)
  • Friends and friendships (p.214)
  • Faith in God and country (p.220)
  • Communicating with the outside (p.223)
  • Attitudes toward non-Americans (p.231)
  • American air attacks (0.236)
  • The ordeal ends (p.243). Liberation (p.245)
  • Survival (p.263)
  • Readjustment (p.269)
  • Bibliography (p.275)
  • Index (p.279)
  • Prisoners of war interviewed (p.vii)
  • Prison camps, work sites, and other places where POWs were held (p.xvii)
  • Maps (p.xxvi)
  • Introduction : prisoners of the sun (p.xxix)
  • Capture (p.1). American Attitudes toward surrender (p.2)
  • Frontline troops of Japan (p.11)
  • Adjustment to POW status (p.21). Japanese rules (p.23)
  • Japanese punishment (p.29)
  • Escape (p.39)
  • Guards and camp administrators (p.50)
  • American discipline (p.60)
  • Interrogation and collaboration (p.67)
  • Resistance and sabotage (p.74)
  • Atrocities (p.79). Death marches (p.80)
  • Death ships (p.91)
  • Other atrocities (p.105)

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