Andrew E Barshay: 1 book
The Gods Left First
The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945–1956
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
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,...
