Children of the camps : Japan's last forgotten victims /

Statement of responsibility: Mark Felton

by Felton, Mark [author].

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BookPublisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, c2011Description: vi, 202 pages.ISBN: 1848842618 (hardbound).Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese

| Prisoners of war -- Indonesia -- Biography

| World War, 1939-1945 -- Asia -- Children

Contents:

School's Out -- Evacuation -- New Masters -- Internment -- City of Terror -- Hell's Waiting Room -- Hard Times -- Comfort Girls -- God Save the King -- The Final Stretch -- The Last Tenko -- The Lost Children -- Blood Link -- Appendix A: Chronology of the Asia-Pacific War -- Appendix B: Asia : Then and Now -- Appendix C: British and Commonwealth Dead -- Notes -- Selected Sources and Bibliography -- Index

Summary: "...tells the heart-rending stories of Caucasian and Eurasian children who were imprisoned within Japanese internment camps throughout Asia during the Second World War. The Japanese treatment of Allied children was as harsh and murderous as that of their parents' and military POWs, but this shameful episode has been largely overlooked. The author has gathered together numerous survivors' moving and disturbing testimonies. We learn how children of all ages were plucked from comfortable colonial lives to endure terrible camp conditions. Many were separated from their parents or saw their families destroyed by the Japanese. Survival became a daily game with their lives constantly threatened by disease, starvation and physical abuse. Most regularly witnessed episodes of bestial violence that no child ever should see, and the entire cumulative experience inevitably had a deep and lasting effect on their subsequent adult lives. They are among the last victims of Japanese aggression and, even after sixty years later, many carry the mental and physical scars of that atrocious episode. Written by the leading authority on the war in the Far East, Children of the Camps examines an over-looked and neglected area of WW2 history by revealing the plight of these innocent victims of the Japanese."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books, Monographs	Filipinas Heritage Library Roderick Hall Coll.	RHC - Researched Accounts	D 805 .J3 F45 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	17874

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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