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I bean to read this book about POW's of the Japanese.I stopped when I came to the chapter on medical experiments that including dissection live prisoners.

Prisoners of the Japanese : Pows of World War II in the Pacific

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I bean to read this book about POW's of the Japanese.I stopped when I came to the chapter on medical experiments that including dissection live prisoners.

Prisoners of the Japanese : Pows of World War II in the Pacific

It looks like a powerful, worthwhile book that (apparently) pulls no punches.  I agree that such honest writing in the context of Imperial Japan's breathtaking brutality can be overwhelming at times for any decent person, which underscores the peerless, singular evil of Imperial Japan..

Even the frequently Left-wing Publisher's Weekly appreciated the writer's honesty:

 

Editorial Reviews

 

From Publishers Weekly
Daws (Shoal of Time) eloquently tells the story of 140,000 Allied military prisoners whom history has almost forgotten. He convincingly describes Japanese POW camps not as homogenizing institutions but as tribal societies of Americans, British, Australians, Dutch-and Japanese. The Japanese showed no mercy to those who fell into their hands, the author stresses: Thousands were worked to death; as many more died of disease and starvation; others were beaten to death or beheaded, often so clumsily that two or three strokes were required to finish the job. Daws combines archival research and personal interviews to describe inmates who did what they had to do to survive and afterward tried to live with their guilt. Their experiences highlight the scale of human pain inflicted by Japan. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

-- The Asian Wall Street Journal
"Daws has done for the POW saga what Schindler's List and The Diary of Anne Frank did for the Holocaust."

 

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