Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75
This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in south-east Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after it had ended.
This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in south-east Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after it had ended.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780415312189 (0415312183)
Publish date: December 3rd 2003
Publisher: Routledge/Curzon
Pages no: 241
Edition language: English
popular culture has already absorbed some of the accounts of "Japanese stragglers" or ex-members of the IJA living on various tropical islands even decades after the war. this academic treatise by Dr. Beatrice Trefalt of Monash University covers some of the lesser known details, including helpful me...