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020 $a0295983361 (cloth : alk. paper)
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082 00 $a940.54/7273/092252$222
100 1 $aStraus, Ulrich.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003061002
245 14 $aThe anguish of surrender :$bJapanese POW's of World War II /$cUlrich Straus.
260 $aSeattle :$bUniversity of Washington Press,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axx, 282 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, 1 map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"An ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [265]-270) and index.
520 1 $a"On December 6, 1941, Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki was one of a handful of men selected to skipper midget subs on a suicide mission to breach Pearl Harbor's defenses. When his equipment malfunctioned, he couldn't find the entrance to the harbor. He hit several reefs, splitting the sub, and swam to shore some miles from Pearl Harbor. In the early dawn of December 8, he was picked up on the beach by two Japanese American MPs on patrol. Sakamaki became Prisoner No. 1 of the Pacific War." "Japan's no-surrender policy did not permit becoming a POW. Sakamaki and his fellow soldiers and sailors has been indoctrinated to choose between victory and a heroic death. While his comrades had perished, he had survived. By becoming a prisoner of war, Sakamaki believed he had brought shame and dishonor on himself, his family, his community, and his nation, in effect relinquishing his citizenship. Sakamaki fell into despair and, like so many Japanese POWs, begged his captors to kill him." "Based on the author's interviews with dozens of former Japanese POWs, along with memoirs only recently coming to light, The Anguish of Surrender tells one of the great unknown stories of World War II. Beginning with an examination of Japan's prewar ultranationalist climate and the harsh code that precluded the possibility of capture, the author investigates the circumstances of surrender and capture of men like Sakamaki and their experiences in POW camps."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, American.
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zJapan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010108339
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zSoutheast Asia.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xConcentration camps$zSoutheast Asia.
651 0 $aSoutheast Asia$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008630
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