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Prisoner of the Emperor : An American POW in World War II
author
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Smith, Stanley W.; Smith, Duane A.
publisher
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University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin
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087081222X
print isbn13
:
9780870812224
ebook isbn13
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9780585004280
language
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English
subject
Smith, Stanley W.,--1905- , World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American, Prisoners of war--United States--Biography, Prisoners of war--Philippines--Biography.
publication date
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1991
lcc
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D805.P6S49 1991eb
ddc
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940.54/7252/095991
subject
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Smith, Stanley W.,--1905- , World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American, Prisoners of war--United States--Biography, Prisoners of war--Philippines--Biography.
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Copyright 1991 by the University Press of Colorado
P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved.
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The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Smith, Stanley W., 1905 Prisoner of the Emperor: an American POW in World War II / Stanley W. Smith; Duane A. Smith, editor. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87081-222-x 1. Smith, Stanley W., 1905 . 2. World War, 19391945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 3. World War, 19391945 Personal narratives, American. 4. Prisoners of war United States Biography. 5. Prisoners of war Philippines Biography. I. Smith, Duane A. II. Title. D805.P6S49 1991 940.54'7252'095991 dc20 9129101 CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.481984
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Contents
Foreword
vii
Prologue
ix
Chapter 1: Red Sky in the Sunset
3
Chapter 2: Magnanimity of the Emperor
25
Chapter 3: What Is Our Quan Having This Evening?
43
Chapter 4: Eat Rice or Die
63
Chapter 5: Destination Kobe
88
Chapter 6: To Tokyo on Impulse
109
Epilogue
131
Further Readings
133
Index
135
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Foreword
the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., spoke these words at a Memorial Day gathering in Keene, New Hampshire, in 1884. They reflected his experiences in the Civil War, which had concluded nineteen years earlier. The eloquent, erudite Holmes summarized the feelings of generations of men before and since who marched off to war.
War experiences are not easy to write about. The stories arise from a need to express emotions that perhaps cannot be shared easily except with those who have had similar experiences. Stanley Westbrook Smith and his generation left their mark on a war that ended more than forty-five years ago and forever changed world history. It is his own story that he tells here, an exceptional account of a prisoner of war. It is a history that provides a sense of time, a sense of place.
In the original foreword to the journal, he states his goal in writing this account, which covers three years and ten months of his life:
One person's contribution to the war effort in World War II generally had no real bearing on the ultimate outcome, and the detailed experiences set forth in this narrative in no way violate that premise. My objective here, however, is to preserve information time has a way of eroding from memory. How kindly the material is treated over the years is not important, nor will it especially concern those of us who were granted the extraordinary privilege of returning to a rebirth of freedom.
The following pages fulfill this objective the preservation of a segment of that war and one man's experiences when, in Holmes's words, "life was a profound and passionate thing."
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