With only the will to live : accounts of Americans in Japanese prison camps, 1941-1945

Author(s)

• La Forte, Robert S. (Robert Sherman)
• Marcello, Ronald E.
• Himmel, Richard L.

Bibliographic Information

With only the will to live : accounts of Americans in Japanese prison camps, 1941-1945

edited by Robert S. La Forte, Ronald E. Marcello, Richard L. Himmel

SR Books, c1994

• : cloth : alk. paper

Note

Topically arranged excerpts from interviews conducted from 1970 to 1989 by the University of North Texas Oral History Program in Denton

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-278) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Over 40 percent of America's 25,000 Pacific prisoners of war died in Japanese prison camps during World War II. In this text, survivors describe their brutal treatment by guards, their battles against hunger and disease and their fight to survive.

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Details

• NCID: BA23472997
• ISBN:
  • 0842024646
• LCCN: 93042419
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Wilmington, Del.
• Pages/Volumes: xxxvii, 286 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D805.A785
  • DC20 : 940.54/7252
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Asia, Southeastern
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
  • LCSH : Oral history