More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children
living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to
internment camps following Japan's late December 1941 victories in
Manila. "Captured" tells the story of daily life in five different
camps--the crowded housing, mounting familial and international
tensions, heavy labor, and increasingly severe malnourishment that
made the internees' rescue a race with starvation. Frances B. Cogan
explores the events behind this nearly four-year captivity,
explaining how and why this little-known internment occurred. A
thorough historical account, the book addresses several
controversial issues about the internment, including Japanese
intentions toward their prisoners and the U.S. State Department's
role in allowing the presence of American civilians in the
Philippines during wartime.
Supported by diaries, memoirs, war crimes transcripts, Japanese
soldiers' accounts, medical data, and many other sources, Captured
presents a detailed and moving chronicle of the internees' efforts
to survive. Cogan compares living conditions within the internment
camps with life in POW camps and with the living conditions of
Japanese soldiers late in the war. An afterword discusses the
experiences of internment survivors after the war, combining
medical and legal statistics with personal anecdotes to create a
testament to the thousands of Americans whose captivity haunted
them long after the war ended.
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