The real Tenko
Subtitle: extraordinary true stories of women prisoners of the Japanese
By: Mark Felton
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Barnsley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781848845503
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Japanese Prisoners and prisons; World War, 1939-1945; Women
Description: "This book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women by the Japanese occupation forces. While a number of memoirs have been published there is no dedicated volume. It chronicles the massacres of nurses (such as that at Alexandra Hospital, Singapore), disturbing atrocities on both Europeans and Asians, and accounts of imprisonment. It reveals how many ended up in Japanese hands when they should have been evacuated. Also covered are the hardships of long marches and the sexual enslavement of white and native women (so called 'Comfort Women'). The book is a testimony both to the callous and cruel behavior of the Japanese and to the courage and fortitude of those who suffered at their hands."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-165) and index.
Table of contents: title: Black Christmas; title: The second best camp; title: A band of angels; title: Escape from Singapore; title: Bloodbath at the beach; title: New Britain; title: Comfort women; title: Barbed wire horizon; title: Paradise Road; title: Released from bondage; title: Debt of honour.