Taken captive : a Japanese POW’s story
| ISBN: | 0471142859, 9780471142850 |
| OCLC Number: | 33042721 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Author: | Shohei Ooka |
| Translator: | Wayne P. Lammers |
| Language: | en |
| Publisher: | J. Wiley & Sons |
| Publication Place: | New York |
| English Publication Date: | 1996 |
| Notes: | Japanese title: Furyoki. |
| Related: | A Pacific Basin Institute Book |
| Abstract: | On January 25, 1945, Private Ooka Shohei of the Japanese Imperial Army was captured by American forces in the Philippines. Near death from starvation and acute malaria, he was nursed back to health by his captors and shipped off to a POW camp. Taken Captive is his powerful and poignant account of life as a prisoner of war. |
| Subjects: | Prisoners of war, Fiction Shohei Ooka, Translations into English World War, 1939-1945, Fiction |