The Other Hundred Years War: Japan's Bid for Supremacy 1941-2041

History

BRADDON, Russell

Asia

HarperCollins, Publishers

Woman in Arms

Literature & Fiction

The Naked Island

Russell Braddon wrote The Naked Island in 1950. By 1968 it had been reprinted eleven times and sold one million copies in Britain alone. As the author states, ‘It was written to tell the world what sort of people the Japanese can be. It was written to explain what they did in the war and what they might well do again.’ There are numerous books on the war in the East but this is one of the greatest. Often hilarious, even amidst the horror, this is the story of what the Japanese did to those they captured. It is written in prose all the more effective for its dry understatement and sharp observation by a man who never lost his will to live even in the most terrible circumstances. Braddon’s story is however not that simply of a prisoner of war. In his comments on the equally brutal Japanese treatment of native workers and indeed any who were not Japanese, he reveals the hollow reality of the ‘Greater Asian co-prosperity sphere’ promised by the Japanese, and attempts to understand how one group of human beings could behave in such a way towards another and the inhuman ideology and fanaticism which drove the Japanese on. Even today the subject of Japanese war guilt is never far from the headlines and it was only last year that a deal on compensation was arrived at for surviving POWs.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Penguin

DJ is complete with little wear. There is light toning to edges. Contents are clean and bright throughout. Free from inscriptions.

The siege

Military

CAPE.

Cheshire V.C.

Children's Books

Evans Brothers

All the Queen's men: The Household Cavalry and the Brigade of Guards

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Hamilton

A hate-filled violin virtuoso enlists the aid of the world's deadliest spider, the Australian funnelweb, to serve his deranged will, and Inspector Cheadle is left trying to untangle mysterious strands of false leads before others die horribly

Funnelweb: A Detective Chief Inspector Cheadle Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

St Martins Pr

The Finalists

Atheneum

The author describes his experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war after the fall of Singapore in World War II

Macmillan Pub. Co.

After the disastrous Malayan campaign of 1942, the Japanese subjected their 40,000 prisoners to a pitiless regime of starvation and slavery. The author describes how he and his comrades drew upon unsuspected resources to survive.

The Naked Island (CH)

Charnwood

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