The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese

by Mark Felton

Book Overview

This book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women by the Japanese occupation forces. While a number of memoirs have been published there is no dedicated volume. It chronicles the massacres of nurses (such as that at Alexandra Hospital, Singapore), disturbing atrocities on both European and Asians, and accounts of imprisonment.

It reveals how many ended up in Japanese hands when they should have been evacuated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848845502
• ISBN13: 9781848845503
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"