UID:
edocfu_9961373520902883
Format:
1 online resource (321 p.)
ISBN:
1-61251-382-4
Content:
In World War II, over 36,000 American men, mostly military but some civilian, were thrown into Japanese POW camps and forced to labor for companies working for Japan s war effort. At Japan s largest fixed military prison camp, Mitsubishi s huge factory complex at Mukden, Manchuria, more than 2,000 American prisoners where subjected to cold, starvation, beatings, and even medical experiments, while manufacturing parts for Zero fighter planes. Those lucky enough to survive required the efforts of an OSS rescue team and a special recovery unit to make it home alive.Holmes, who spent two decades t
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Long Heartbreak Begins; Chapter 2. Voyage to a Frozen Hell and Deadly Camp; Chapter 3. Man in a Cage: The Unit 731 Doctors Come to Mukden; Chapter 4. Unit 731 Doctors Call Again and Again; Chapter 5. The Colonel's Rules and His "Hospital"; Chapter 6. The MKK Factory: Daily Toil, Fear, and Sabotage; Chapter 7. Major Stanley Hankins: A Major Military Embarrassment; Chapter 8. Escape; Chapter 9. Red Cross Double-Crossed; Chapter 10. Another Escape: An Ongoing Mystery
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Chapter 11. B-29s Bring Death, Hope, and RescueChapter 12. The Long Road Back; Chapter 13. Justice in the Aftermath?; Chapter 14. Back in Time; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-36996-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-59114-377-2
Language:
English
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