help needed please

ImSpartacuS · 06-24-2012, 08:52 AM

Hi everyone
I am currently looking for books on the second world war--Japanese POW
camps true stories
these are for my father which i have just bought a kindle touch
but im at a loss where to find these
any help would be appreicated

ps i have done a search but dont know if im doing it correctly

Regards

wizwor · 06-24-2012, 09:02 AM

go to amazon.com, select the kindle store, then search for japanese pow.

click here

HarryT · 06-24-2012, 09:07 AM

Please ask questions in the correct forum. I'm moving this to "Reading Recommendations". Using a specific title for your thread, such as "Looking for POW stories", is much more likely to achieve results than a meaningless "help needed" title such as you've used.

Requiem · 07-03-2012, 10:08 PM

Try Unbroken by Laura Hillebrand

Mujokan · 07-04-2012, 10:03 AM

Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard, The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle, maybe?

ImSpartacuS · 07-06-2012, 06:40 AM

Thankyou for the above titles, i also apoligise for putting this in the incorrect
place on the forum..........

Jozawun · 07-06-2012, 08:49 PM

Some fiction works include The Bridge over the River Kwai (see above), King Rat by James Clavell, and A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute. They all heavily understate the true horrors.
Lord Russell of Liverpool assisted the Japanese War Crimes Tribunals, and tried to set the records straight in The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes.
There is a long list of personal memoirs under Book References in the Wikipedia article "Burma Railway". To these you could add Betty Jeffrey's book White Coolies.
You could also look up Wikipedia on "Changi".
My old man was in Changi, and had a large collection of these books at one stage.
His take on it was that some of these books depicted the facts better than others, but none of them did so completely, because they were all written by survivors, and not by the myriad dead.

06-24-2012, 08:52 AM	#1
ImSpartacuS Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: none	help needed please Hi everyone I am currently looking for books on the second world war--Japanese POW camps true stories these are for my father which i have just bought a kindle touch but im at a loss where to find these any help would be appreicated ps i have done a search but dont know if im doing it correctly Regards

06-24-2012, 09:07 AM	#3
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 54,665 Karma: 26165759 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Touch, PW, Fire HD, iPad 3, iPhone 4, Samsung Tab 2 7 + More	Please ask questions in the correct forum. I'm moving this to "Reading Recommendations". Using a specific title for your thread, such as "Looking for POW stories", is much more likely to achieve results than a meaningless "help needed" title such as you've used. __________________ Harry Currently proofreading The Poison Belt, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

07-06-2012, 08:49 PM	#7
Jozawun Evangelist Posts: 471 Karma: 1578374 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Australia Device: Cybook Gen 3, Pocketbook 902, Sony 650	Some fiction works include The Bridge over the River Kwai (see above), King Rat by James Clavell, and A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute. They all heavily understate the true horrors. Lord Russell of Liverpool assisted the Japanese War Crimes Tribunals, and tried to set the records straight in The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes. There is a long list of personal memoirs under Book References in the Wikipedia article *"Burma Railway". To these you could add Betty Jeffrey's book White Coolies*. You could also look up Wikipedia on "Changi". My old man was in Changi, and had a large collection of these books at one stage. His take on it was that some of these books depicted the facts better than others, but none of them did so completely, because they were all written by survivors, and not by the myriad dead. __________________ Then he waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

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wizwor Guru Posts: 769 Karma: 16553425 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: kindle, fire	go to amazon.com, select the kindle store, then search for japanese pow. click here

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ImSpartacuS Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: none	Thankyou for the above titles, i also apoligise for putting this in the incorrect place on the forum..........


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