MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 03076cam a22003854a 4500
001 5640263
005 20221121200030.0
008 060112t20062006mduabf b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005037960
020 $a1591142040 (alk. paper)
024 3 $a9781591142041
035 $a(OCoLC)OCM63116439
035 $a(NNC)5640263
035 $a5640263
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBAKER$dC#P$dOrLoB-B
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---$aa-ph---$aa-ja---
050 00 $aKF228.J36$bP37 2006
082 00 $a640.54/05$222
100 1 $aParkinson, James W.,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006003338
245 10 $aSoldier slaves :$babandoned by the White House, Courts, and Congress /$cJames W. Parkinson and Lee Benson.
260 $aAnnapolis, Md. :$bNaval Institute Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axii, 249 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aMap on lining papers.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index.
520 1 $a"Decades-old war abuses are given up-to-the-minute relevance in this book about World War II American soldiers seeking restitution from Japanese companies that used them as slave laborers during the war. Their struggle is told by the lawyer representing them, James Parkinson. With the help of a well-known journalist, Parkinson ties the present to the past by interspersing horrific war narrative with modern-day dramas played out in courtrooms and congressional hearing rooms as lawyers, judges, government officials, senators, and congressmen debate the merits of a case now known as the JPOW case." "In the process, wartime brutality confronts peacetime prosperity, and economics, not military might, determines the outcome. Using the personal history of one of the veterans he represents to illustrate what happened, Parkinson traces a path that began with the infamous Bataan Death March of April 1942 and three and a half years of forced labor, followed by years of silence imposed on the veterans by their own government. Readers will be drawn into the case as the extent of the maltreatment by the Japanese is revealed and the POWs' efforts to be compensated for their labor unfold. With the support of such influential senators as Orrin Hatch and Joseph Biden and the publication of this book, Parkinson and coauthor Lee Benson are making certain that the veterans' story becomes widely known."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEx-prisoners of war$xLegal status, laws, etc.$zUnited States.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, Japanese.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148476
650 0 $aBataan Death March, Philippines, 1942.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004007609
653 $aClaims versus Japanese corporations
700 1 $aBenson, Lee,$d1948-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87841685
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip066/2005037960.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hKF228.J36$iP37 2006