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Language: en
Pages: 254
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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"...consists of recollections by Japanese survivors of this terrible campaign, who describe instances of poignant sacrifice, heroism, and occasional compassion
Tales by Japanese Soldiers of the Burma Campaign, 1942-1945
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Kazuo Tamayama
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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"The Japanese are notoriously reticent about their involvement in the Second World War, and no similar volume has ever before been published, either in Japanese
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-30 - Publisher: Springer

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The Japanese railway soldiers, who built the notorious Burma-Thailand railway in 1942-43, earned an unenviable reputation for brutality, but they have not hithe
Railwaymen in the War
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The first Japanese army unit was established in 1896. The Japanese railway engineers was a unique branch of the army which specialized in the operation and cons
Burma Road
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In 1941, as the Imperial Japanese Army swept across Asia and the Pacific, no country seemed able to defend itself against its rapid and brutal aggression. China