The Real Tenko
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The Real Tenko
Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese
Author:Mark Felton
Language:English
Format:Softcover
Dimensions:6" x 9"
Pages:176
Photos:8 pages b/w plates
Publisher:Pen and Sword Military
ISBN:9781848845503
Item No. 9781848845503
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. Also covered are the hardships of long marches and the sexual enslavement of white and native women (so called 'Comfort Women').The book is a testimony both to the callous and cruel behavior of the Japanese and to the courage and fortitude of those who suffered at their hands.