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Title Forgotten captives in Japanese-occupied Asia / edited by Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 48
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) ; 48.
Contents 1. Japanese-occupied Asia from 1941 to 1945: one occupier, many captivities and memories / Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn -- pt. I. National memories -- 2. Beyond slogans: Assessing the experiences and the history of the Australian prisoners of war of the Japanese / Hank Nelson -- 3. Monument and ceremony: The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial and the Anzac legend / Lachlan Grant -- 4. Memory and the prisoner of war experience: The United Kingdom / Sibylla Jane Flower -- 5. Indian POWs in the Pacific, 1941-45 / O.J. Douds -- 6. Dutch memories of captivity in the Pacific War / Remco Raben -- 7. In the eye of a hurricane: Americans in Japanese custody during World War II / P. Scott Corbett -- 8. The Canadian experience of the Pacific War: Betrayal and forgotten captivity / Gregory A. Johnson -- pt. II. Forgotten captivities -- 9. The Bridge on the River Kwai and King Rat: Protest and ex-prisoner of war memory in Britain and Australia / Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn -- 10. Japanese guards in film and memory: White Skin, Yellow Commander / Kaori Maekawa -- 11. Crime and authority within Dutch communities of internees in Indonesia, 1942-45 / Jacco Van Den Heuvel -- 12. Remembering war and forgetting civilians: The place of civilian internees in Australian commemorations of the Pacific War / Christina Twomey -- 13. Internee voices: Women and children's experience of being Japanese captives / Bernice Archer -- 14. Unlikely heroines: Sybil Kathigasu and Elizabeth Choy / P. Lim Pui Huen -- 15. 'Hide and seek': Children of Japanese-Indisch parents / Eveline Buchheim -- 16. The Dutch community in Thailand, 1945-46 / Arno Ooms
Summary Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the "Death Railway" between Burma and Thailand. Some camps had death rates below 1 per cent, others of over 20 per cent. While POWs were deployed far and wide as a captive labour force, civilian internees were generally detained locally. This book explores differences in how captivity was experienced between 1941 and 1945, and has been remembered since: differences due to geography and logistics, to policies and personalities, and marked by nationality, age, class, gender and combatant status
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Japan
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Asia
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area
Memory.
Prisoners of war -- Japan
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Forced labor
Internment camps
Memory
Prisoners of war
Asia
Japan
Pacific Area
Form Electronic book
Author Hack, Karl.
Blackburn, Kevin, 1965-
ISBN 9780203934746
0203934741