Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience : The Changi Prisoner of War Camp in Singapore, 1942-45
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415674948
ISBN-13
9780415674942
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 29th, 2012
Print length
234 Pages
Weight
414 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 15.80 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
European historyAsian historySocial & cultural historySecond World War
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This book explores the history of the Changi Prisoner of War camp at Singapore between the surrender in 1942 and the eventual liberation by British forces in September 1945. It discusses the forms of POW resistance to the Japanese.
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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