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Legacy
(Paperback)
William E. Moore
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Discovery Miles 4 190
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Counting the Days is the story of six prisoners of war imprisoned
by both sides during the conflict the Japanese called the Pacific
War. As in all wars, the prisoners were civilians as well as
military personnel. Two of the prisoners were captured on the
second day of the war and spent the entire war in prison camps:
Garth Dunn, a young Marine captured on Guam who faced a death rate
in a Japanese prison 10 times that in battle; and Ensign Kazuo
Sakamaki, who suffered the ignominy of being Japanese POW number 1.
Simon and Lydia Peters were European expatriates living in the
Philippines; the Japanese confiscated their house and belongings,
imprisoned them, and eventually released them to a harrowing jungle
existence caught between Philippine guerilla raids and Japanese
counterattacks. Mitsuye Takahashi was a U.S. citizen of Japanese
descent living in Malibu, California, who was imprisoned by the
United States for the duration of the war, disrupting her life and
separating her from all she owned. Masashi Itoh was a Japanese
soldier who remained hidden in the jungles of Guam, held captive by
his own conscience and beliefs until 1960, 15 years after the end
of the war. This is the story of their struggles to stay alive, the
small daily triumphs that kept them going--and for some, their
almost miraculous survival.
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