The final betrayal : Mountbatten, MacArthur and the tragedy of Japanese POWs /
This book examines the period between the unconditional surrender of Japan on 14 August 1945 and the arrival of Allied liberation forces in Japanese-occupied territories after 2 September 1945. The delay handed the Japanese a golden opportunity to set their house in order before Allied war crimes in...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Barnsley, South Yorkshire :
Pen & Sword Military,
2010.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | This book examines the period between the unconditional surrender of Japan on 14 August 1945 and the arrival of Allied liberation forces in Japanese-occupied territories after 2 September 1945. The delay handed the Japanese a golden opportunity to set their house in order before Allied war crimes investigators arrived. After 14 August groups of Allied POWs were brutally murdered. Vast amounts of documentation concerning crimes were burned ahead of the arrival of Allied forces. POW facilities and medical experimentation installations were either abandoned or destroyed. Perhaps the greatest crim. |
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| Item Description: | Includes chronology. EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-189) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781844684786 1844684784 9781783370481 1783370483 1299199003 9781299199002 |
