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Over 40 percent of Americas 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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title:With Only the Will to Live : Accounts of Americans in Japanese Prison Camps, 1941-1945
author:La Forte, Robert S.
publisher:Scholarly Resources, Inc.
isbn10 | asin:0842024646
print isbn13:9780842024648
ebook isbn13:9780585120324
language:English
subjectWorld War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Asia, Southeastern, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American, Oral history.
publication date:1994
lcc:D805.A785W57 1994eb
ddc:940.54/7252
subject:World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Asia, Southeastern, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American, Oral history.
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With Only the Will to Live
Accounts of Americans in Japanese Prison Camps
19411945
Edited by
Robert S. La Forte
Ronald E. Marcello
Richard L. Himmel
With only the will to live accounts of Americans in Japanese prison camps 1941-1945 - image 2
A Scholarly Resources Inc. Imprint
Wilmington, Delaware
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for permanence of paper for printed library materials, Z39.48, 1984.
1994 by Scholarly Resources Inc.
All rights reserved
First published 1994
Printed and bound in the United States of America
Scholarly Resources Inc.
104 Greenhill Avenue
Wilmington, DE 198051897
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
With only the will to live : accounts of Americans in Japanese
prison camps, 19411945 / edited by Robert S. La Forte,
Ronald E. Marcello, and Richard L. Himmel.
p. cm.
Topically arranged excerpts from interviews conducted from
1970 to 1989 by the University of North Texas Oral History
Program in Denton.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8420-2464-6 (cloth)
1. World War, 19391945Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
2. World War, 19391945Concentration campsAsia, South
eastern. 3. World War, 19391945Personal narratives, American.
4. Oral history. I. La Forte, Robert S. (Robert Sherman), 1933 .
II. Marcello, Ronald E. III. Himmel, Richard L., 1950 .
D805.A785W57 1994
940.54'7252dc20 93-42419
CIP
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Contents
Prisoners of War Interviewed
VII
Prison Camps, Work Sites, and Other Places Where POWs Were Held
XVII
Maps
XXVI
Introduction: Prisoners of the Sun
XXIX
I. Capture
1
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American Attitudes toward Surrender
2
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Frontline Troops of Japan
11
II. Adjustment to POW Status
21
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Japanese Rules
23
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Japanese Punishment
29
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Escape
39
Picture 9
Guards and Camp Administrators
50
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American Discipline
60
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Interrogation and Collaboration
67
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Resistance and Sabotage
74
III. Atrocities
79
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Death Marches
80
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Death Ships
91
Picture 15
Other Atrocities
105
IV. General TreatmentThe Physical
113
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