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Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War Hardcover – January 1, 2001
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Gregory Michno draws on American, British, Australian, and Dutch POW accounts as well as Japanese convoy histories, recently declassified radio intelligence reports, and a wealth of archival sources to present for the first time a detailed picture of what happened and the extent of the prisoners involved. His findings are startling. More than 150,000 Allied prisoners were transported in the hellships with more than 21,000 fatalities. While many of the deaths were attributable to beatings, starvation, disease, and lack of food and water, the most, Michno reports, were caused by Allied bombs, bullets, and torpedoes. He further reports that this so-called friendly fire was not always accidental--apparently at times it was more important to sink Japanese ships than to worry about POWs. The statistics led Michno to conclude that it was more lethal to be a prisoner on the Japanese hellships than a U.S. Marine fighting in the campaign. His careful examination of the role of U.S. submarines in the sinkings and the rescue of POWs makes yet another significant contribution to the history of the war in the Pacific.
- Print length366 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherNaval Inst Pr
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2001
- Dimensions6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
- ISBN-101557504822
- ISBN-13978-1557504821
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- Publisher : Naval Inst Pr; First Edition (January 1, 2001)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 366 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1557504822
- ISBN-13 : 978-1557504821
- Item Weight : 1.45 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,587,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #102 in Prisoners of War History
- #14,710 in World War II History (Books)
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I was able to fill in many blanks by reading Mr Michno's account. Interestingly, I have several Japanese acquaintances whose parents were involved in the war and they were told even less that I was. The Japanese definitely wanted to forget this nightmare in their history. Unfortunately for them, it was their own people who brought it on themselves. I would hope more children of ex-POWs might add what they were told about their fathers' experiences as a "Nip POW".
Tom Stadtmiller- 4 August 2011
The details in this book answered a few of the questions that I had about this transport in ww2. I now want to find out more..................
"Death on the Hellships" is a veritable Dante's Inferno at sea, the tragedies chronicled month by month. Michno's research into previously classified records and with survivor first-hand accounts far surpasses that of anyone who has touched upon this topic before, and he deserves great credit for rescuing this important story before it was lost forever in the fog of the past. It is not a tale for the faint-hearted. Although the subject covers too broad a time and geographical area to permit in-depth narratives of every prison ship voyage, Michno does provide a wealth of survivor stories illustrating the experiences of these unfortunate men and women. Anyone who reads the history of this tragic episode of modern war will not soon forget it.
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