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The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945–1956
Andrew E. Barshay
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Description for The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945–1956
Hardback. Drawing on a range of memoirs, art, poetry, and contemporary records, this title reconstructs their experience of captivity, return, and encounter with a postwar Japan that now seemed as alien as it had once been familiar. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 b/w photographs, 3 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
At the time of Japan's surrender to Allied forces on August 15, 1945, some six million Japanese were left stranded across the vast expanse of a vanquished Asian empire. Half civilian and half military, they faced the prospect of returning somehow to a Japan that lay prostrate, its cities destroyed, after years of warfare and Allied bombing campaigns. Among them were more than 600,000 soldiers of Japan's army in Manchuria, who had surrendered to the Red Army only to be transported to Soviet labor camps, mainly in Siberia. Held for between two and four years, and some far longer, amid ... Read more
At the time of Japan's surrender to Allied forces on August 15, 1945, some six million Japanese were left stranded across the vast expanse of a vanquished Asian empire. Half civilian and half military, they faced the prospect of returning somehow to a Japan that lay prostrate, its cities destroyed, after years of warfare and Allied bombing campaigns. Among them were more than 600,000 soldiers of Japan's army in Manchuria, who had surrendered to the Red Army only to be transported to Soviet labor camps, mainly in Siberia. Held for between two and four years, and some far longer, amid ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520276154
SKU
V9780520276154
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About Andrew E. Barshay
Andrew E. Barshay is Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Traditions.
Reviews for The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945–1956
"Barshay provides a chilling account of the coercive power of the state of individuals who nonetheless mature sufficiently to speak for themselves. The Gods Left First is a rich and deeply moving book."
Shu Cao International Affairs "An intensely personal book."
Laura Hein Journal of Japanese Studies 41, no. 1 "The Gods Left First is so well written ... Read more
Shu Cao International Affairs "An intensely personal book."
Laura Hein Journal of Japanese Studies 41, no. 1 "The Gods Left First is so well written ... Read more