Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps

by Sarah Kovner

A pathbreaking account of World War II POW camps, challenging the longstanding belief that the Japanese Empire systematically mistreated Allied prisoners.

In only five months, from the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the fall of Corregidor in May 1942, the Japanese Empire took prisoner more than 140,000 Allied servicemen and 130,000 civilians from a dozen different countries. From Manchuria to Java, Burma to New Guinea,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067473761X
• ISBN13: 9780674737617
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"