Soldier slaves : abandoned by the White House, courts, and congress /
Statement of responsibility: James W. Parkinson and Lee Bensonby
Parkinson, James W
; Benson, Lee.
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BookPublisher: Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, c2006Description: xiv, 236 p. : ill., 23 x 16 cm.ISBN: 1591142040 (softbound).Subject(s): Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942 | Ex-prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese | Japanese atrocities | Japanese companies and forced labor | legal cases regarding POWs | Philippine defense campaign | POW compensation cases | POW experiencesLanguage/Translation Info: EnglishSummary: Two stories presented side by side: the sufferings endured by American veterans of Bataan and Corregidor in the defense of the Philippines, 1941-1942 and subsequent prisoner of war experience, and the legal battle from the late 1990s to the early 2000s for compensation from the Japanese companies which forced them to work. Alternate chapters deal with first the near present (1999) and the wartime experiences.
The lead author, Parkinson, was the head lawyer in the case of the POWs against the Japanese companies (giants such as Mitsui and Mitsubishi); Benson is a professional journalist. They visited veterans, battle sites and war commemorations while fighting it out in the courts. In the end, the US government did not support the veterans’ claims; as in 1942-1944, they were abandoned by their government, the authors point out. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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Filipinas Heritage Library Roderick Hall Coll. | KF 228 .J36 P37 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 13796 |
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