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Inside the Bataan Death March - Defeat, Travail and Memory (Paperback)
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Inside the Bataan Death March - Defeat, Travail and Memory (Paperback)
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For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the horror of the Bataan
Death March - one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World
War II - unfolded. The prevailing interpretation of this event is
simple: American prisoners of war suffered cruel treatment at the
hands of their Japanese captors while Filipinos, sympathetic to the
Americans, looked on. This book questions that interpretation and
reconsiders the actions of all three groups in their cultural
contexts. A greater complexity is revealed: the violent nature of
the March was largely the result of culture clash - undisciplined,
individualistic Americans encountered Japanese who valued order and
form. Filipinos are shown to have been active, even ambitious
participants in the drama. Attention is paid to the crucial aspect
of memory, how it is constructed, by whom and for what purpose.
Most survivors wrote their accounts of the March decades after the
war and a number of factors distorted their stories.
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