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Originally Posted by lisa_spyder

Steve,

You may like to read a book written by Australian Historian Gavan Daws entitled "Prisoners of the Japanese; POWs of World War II in the Pacific" (Scribe Publications).

Yes, I've seen that book. I found the three that I have at a used book shop and picked them up. I believe I've seen that one available as a Kindle book, so I have plans of downloading it to my ipad once I finish the current group. The book that I've already read also had passages both in the author's hand and first hand accounts from FEPOWs (from interviews, memoirs and diaries while they were POWs) describing the atrocities committed in the Hell Ships, building the Thai-Burma railway, Bataan, in Japan, etc.... There were definitely parts that were hard to read and sort of hard to comprehend. It's amazing what people can endure mentally, physically and spiritually.

Originally Posted by Willem Fick

For a real eye opener to do an Internet search on "the rape of Nanking". After that you will probably agree that It is a real shame that the Japanese were never prosecuted to the same extent as the Nazis, as I feel that in many instances their levels of cruelty and barbarism far eclipsed that of the Germans.

Yes, I've also done a lot of reading about Nanking and other Japanese-->Chinese atrocities. And yes, it is a shame. It's one of the few times when even being the loser, they seem to have been able to write history the way they want.