Reassessing the Japanese prisoner of war experience : the Changi POW camp, Singapore, 1942-45 / R.P.W. Havers
- Bib ID:
- 846246
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Havers, R. P. W. (Robin Paul Whittick), 1967-
- Description:
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- London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
- viii, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0700716572
- Summary:
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"Popular perceptions of life in Japanese prisoner of war camps are dominated by images of emaciated figures engaged in slave labour, and badly treated by their captors. This book, based on extensive original research, shows that this view is quite wrong in relation to the large camp at Changi, which was the main POW camp in Singapore. It demonstrates that in Changi, the Japanese afforded their captives a high degree of autonomy, that this in turn resulted in a prison camp society that grew and flourished, in contrast to other Japanese POW camps, and that it fostered an independent and combative spirit, and high morale."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Life at the Changi prisoner of war camp, Singapore, 1942-5
- 2. Surrender and captivity: 15 February 1942
- 3. Initial POW adjustments to captivity: March-August 1942
- 4. The Selarang barrack square incident
- 5. Changi: September 1942-September 1943, part I
- 6. Changi: September 1942-September 1943, part II
- 7. Return from the railway: September 1943-May 1944
- 8. Changi gaol: May 1944-September 1945
- 9. Conclusions: bowed but not broken.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [206]-212.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
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- Changi POW camp, Singapore, 1942-45
- Changi prisoner of war camp, Singapore, 1942-45
- Copyright:
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