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Craig B. Smith

Counting the Days

POWs, Internees, and Stragglers of World War II in the Pacific

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Counting the Days is the story of six prisoners of war imprisoned by both sides during the conflict the Japanese called the Pacific War. As in all wars, the prisoners were civilians as well as military personnel. Two of the prisoners were captured on the second day of the war and spent the entire war in prison camps: Garth Dunn, a young Marine captured on Guam who faced a death rate in a Japanese prison 10 times that in battle; and Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, who suffered the ignominy of being Japanese POW number 1. Simon and Lydia Peters were European expatriates living in the Philippines; the Japanese confiscated their house and belongings, impr… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-58834-356-7
  • EAN: 9781588343567
  • Produktnummer: 15734296
  • Verlag: Smithsonian
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 6'795 KB
  • Abbildungen: 15 B&W PHOTOS

Über den Autor


Craig B. Smith is former president of a global engineering, architecture, and construction firm that has been involved in many major public works projects, including the renovation of the Pentagon before and after 9/11. He is the author of How the Great Pyramid Was Built and Extreme Waves.

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