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Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War
Gregory F. Michno
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Description for Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 black & white photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QSP; 3JJH; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 499.
Now available in paperback, Death on the Hellships chronicles the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea. It is a disturbing story; many believe the Bataan Death March even pales by comparison. Survivors describe their ordeal in the Japanese hellships as the absolute worst experience of their captivity. Crammed by the thousands into the holds of the ships, moved from island to island and put to work, they endured all the horrors of the prison camps magnified tenfold. Gregory Michno draws on American, British, Australian, and Dutch POW accounts as well as Japanese convoy histories, declassified radio intelligence ... Read more
Now available in paperback, Death on the Hellships chronicles the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea. It is a disturbing story; many believe the Bataan Death March even pales by comparison. Survivors describe their ordeal in the Japanese hellships as the absolute worst experience of their captivity. Crammed by the thousands into the holds of the ships, moved from island to island and put to work, they endured all the horrors of the prison camps magnified tenfold. Gregory Michno draws on American, British, Australian, and Dutch POW accounts as well as Japanese convoy histories, declassified radio intelligence ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Annopolis, United States
ISBN
9781591146322
SKU
V9781591146322
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Gregory F. Michno
Gregory F. Michno is the son of a World War II submariner whose boat participated in one of the infamous torpedoings of a Japanese “hellship.” He has written twelve nonfiction books, several of them award winners, and more than forty articles. He and his wife, Susan, live in Erie, Colorado.
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