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NF in NF jacket. Octavo. Red boards quarterbound in a black backstrip with shiny silver foil lettering on the spine. Book has a very faint rub at the head and tail of the spine. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 147 pages. Illustrated with some photographs. Dust Jacket-has a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the very tip of the lower rear outside corner-jacket is otherwise all clean, bright, and sharp. There is no price on the front inside flap of the dust jacket.
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New in New jacket. 9.2 x 6.5 x 0.7 inches. pp. 147. Brand new. Pristine. No markings. More than 2000 American prisoners were forced to work at the huge Mitsubishi MKK factory complex, manufacturing aircraft components. With 19 illustrations, including photographs of surviving POWs visiting the site today, preserved as a memorial. // Shipped carefully packed in a sturdy box.
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Good in Very good jacket. xiv, [2], 147, [5] pages. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Black ink underlining noted on several text pages. Includes List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, and Index, as well chapters on The Long Hearbreak Begins; Voyage to a Frozen Hell and Deadly Camp; Man in a Cage; The Unit 731 Doctors Come to Mukden; Unit 731 Doctors Call Again and Again; The Colonel's Rules and His "Hospital"; The MKK Factory: Daily Toil, Fear, and Sabotage; Major Stanley Hankins: A Major Military Embarrassment; Escape; Red Cross Double-Crossed; Another Escape: An Ongoing Mystery; B-29s Bring Death, Hope, and Rescue; The Long Road Back; Justice in the Aftermath? ; Back in Time; and Epilogue. Linda Goetz Holmes has been interviewing, writing and publishing work about World War II prisoners in the Pacific for the past 30 years. She was the first Pacific War historian appointed to the U.S. Government Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working group (IWG), under the aegis of the National Archives, tasked with locating and declassifying material about World War II crimes. The IWG presented its final report to Congress in April 2007. Her 1994 book, 4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home, about Allied prisoners of war forced to build infamous Burma Railway during World War II, was selected for inclusion in the John E. Taylor Collection of Military History and Intelligence and the National Archives in College Park MD. Linda Goetz Holmes reveals the truth behind the rumors and horrors of the Mukden prisoner of war camp. Like an onion, Holmes peels away the layers of secret horrors, one layer at a time. At last, we see the proof of Japanese medical experiments by the notorious Unit 731 on American prisoners at Mukden, the largest fixed POW camp in the Empire. She carefully documents the use of germ warfare experiments upon the men and the endless brutality and torture of the prisoners by Japanese guards and Japanese nationals. The full story of the four men who sought to escape is told in detail and Holmes traces not just their escape but their capture and the abuse of the remaining POWS in revenge for the 'loss of face' by the guards. Holmes spares no one in telling the truth about the Mukden camp, including the utter incompetence of most American officers, especially the ranking officer, Major Stanley H. Hankins. Few ever cared about the suffering of their subordinates and were willing to steal their food and medicine for their personal use. It is not a story of honor, but truth is rarely pretty. A magnificent work of research and narrative that is destined to be the definitive work about the Mukden POW camp." Roger Mansell, director, Center For Research Allied POWS Under the Japanese "It is high time that we are provided with a truthful and revealing account of that large Japanese camp for American prisoners of war who suffered not only the brutality and deprivations of most captured by the Japanese, but were also the first victims of the horrendous biological warfare experiments of the notorious Unit 731, and after liberation have been shamefully ignored and mistreated by their own government." Gerhard L. Weinberg, author of A World at Arms "Linda Holmes' informative narrative is the most complete account of the Japanese treatment of U.S. POWs at the Mukden POW camp. She skillfully weaves her extensive interviews with former POWs into a compelling tale of life and death in Japanese captivity." Edward J. Drea, author of Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and fall, 1853-1945. In World War II more than 36, 000 American men, mostly military but some civilian, were thrown into Japanese POW camps and forced to labor for companies working for Japan's war effort. At Japan's largest fixed military prison camp, Mitsubishi's huge factory complex at Mukden, Manchuria, more than 2, 000 American prisoners were subjected to cold, starvation, beatings, and...
