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This book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women by the Japanese occupation forces. While a number of memoirs have been published there is no dedicated volume. It chronicles the massacres of nurses (such as that at Alexandra Hospital, Singapore), disturbing atrocities on both Europeans and Asians, and accounts of imprisonment. It reveals how many ended up in Japanese hands when they should have been evacuated. Also covered are the hardships of long marches and the sexual enslavement of white and native women (so called 'Comfort Women'). The book is a testimony both to the callous and cruel behavior of the Japanese and to the courage and fortitude of those who suffered at their hands.
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Though young, Dr. Mark Felton has already published several books on the Second World War in Asia, and this book is sure to appeal to anyone with an interest in those areas, or Prisoners Of War in general.
Born in Colchester in 1974, Dr Mark Felton gained a BA in History and English at Anglia University, Cambridge. He holds an MA and PhD in American History, both at the University of Essex. He currently lives and works in China with his wife and son, where he teaches at Fudan University. He has contributed to many historical periodicals and is the author of Yanagi: The Secret Underwater Trade Between Germany and Japan, 1942-1945, The Fujita Plan: Japanese Attacks on the United States and Australia during the Second World War, Slaughter At Sea and The Coolie Generals (all published by Pen and Sword Books Ltd).
Born in Colchester in 1974, Dr Mark Felton gained a BA in History and English at Anglia University, Cambridge. He holds an MA and PhD in American History, both at the University of Essex. He currently lives and works in China with his wife and son, where he teaches at Fudan University. He has contributed to many historical periodicals and is the author of Yanagi: The Secret Underwater Trade Between Germany and Japan, 1942-1945, The Fujita Plan: Japanese Attacks on the United States and Australia during the Second World War, Slaughter At Sea and The Coolie Generals (all published by Pen and Sword Books Ltd).
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I was quite disappointed by this book: it's short and quick and only skims the surface of its subject matter. It focuses mostly on the service nurses who were interned, and offers comparatively little coverage of civilian women. It's probably okay as an overview, but be aware that it's no more than that. If you are looking for detail, for the nitty-gritty of daily life in the camps, you'll need to go back to individuals' accounts of internment.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Mark Felton covers this harrowing time for members of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service who suffered at the hands of the Japanese troops during World War Two with great sensitivity. His account of the fall of the Far East to Japan is comprehensive and should be recommended reading for modern members of the QAs and those with an interest in military history.
The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese covers many difficult accounts of the horrors faced by the Nursing Sisters and also those of civilians caught up in the invasions of Hong Kong and Singapore by Japan's soldiers. Many are first-hand accounts and tell of the atrocities that patients, nursing and medical staff were subjected to as British Military Hospital Bowen Road Hong Kong and BMH Singapore were overrun by Japanese troops.
Such a book cannot be written or read without horror at these sad real life events and Mark Felton should be applauded for bringing these events to the modern day reader and members of the QAs. He gives a balanced view and describes the culture of Japan in that era to explain why the Japanese soldiers committed such atrocities as killing patients on operating beds, shooting unarmed Medical Officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, raping nurses and imprisoning Sisters of the QAs for several years in degrading and life threatening conditions.
Later chapters explore the deplorable conditions that children, civilian women and Nursing Sisters of the QAIMNS (now the QARANC) endured at the hands of the Japanese prison guards in the internment camps. This includes narratives and interviews of survivors who recall the unsanitary conditions, lack of food and water, beatings and the long roll call standing in blistering heat for hours at a time during the Tenko.
During these hard years the Nursing Sisters of the QAs still administered nursing care to the other prisoners despite their own sufferings and their efforts are described by Mark Felton in The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese.
Chris
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The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese covers many difficult accounts of the horrors faced by the Nursing Sisters and also those of civilians caught up in the invasions of Hong Kong and Singapore by Japan's soldiers. Many are first-hand accounts and tell of the atrocities that patients, nursing and medical staff were subjected to as British Military Hospital Bowen Road Hong Kong and BMH Singapore were overrun by Japanese troops.
Such a book cannot be written or read without horror at these sad real life events and Mark Felton should be applauded for bringing these events to the modern day reader and members of the QAs. He gives a balanced view and describes the culture of Japan in that era to explain why the Japanese soldiers committed such atrocities as killing patients on operating beds, shooting unarmed Medical Officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, raping nurses and imprisoning Sisters of the QAs for several years in degrading and life threatening conditions.
Later chapters explore the deplorable conditions that children, civilian women and Nursing Sisters of the QAIMNS (now the QARANC) endured at the hands of the Japanese prison guards in the internment camps. This includes narratives and interviews of survivors who recall the unsanitary conditions, lack of food and water, beatings and the long roll call standing in blistering heat for hours at a time during the Tenko.
During these hard years the Nursing Sisters of the QAs still administered nursing care to the other prisoners despite their own sufferings and their efforts are described by Mark Felton in The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese.
Chris
(...)
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Mark Felton covers this harrowing time for members of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service who suffered at the hands of the Japanese troops during World War Two with great sensitivity. His account of the fall of the Far East to Japan is comprehensive and should be recommended reading for modern members of the QAs and those with an interest in military history.
The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese covers many difficult accounts of the horrors faced by the Nursing Sisters and also those of civilians caught up in the invasions of Hong Kong and Singapore by Japan's soldiers. Many are first-hand accounts and tell of the atrocities that patients, nursing and medical staff were subjected to as British Military Hospital Bowen Road Hong Kong and BMH Singapore were overrun by Japanese troops.
Such a book cannot be written or read without horror at these sad real life events and Mark Felton should be applauded for bringing these events to the modern day reader and members of the QAs. He gives a balanced view and describes the culture of Japan in that era to explain why the Japanese soldiers committed such atrocities as killing patients on operating beds, shooting unarmed Medical Officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, raping nurses and imprisoning Sisters of the QAs for several years in degrading and life threatening conditions.
Later chapters explore the deplorable conditions that children, civilian women and Nursing Sisters of the QAIMNS (now the QARANC) endured at the hands of the Japanese prison guards in the internment camps. This includes narratives and interviews of survivors who recall the unsanitary conditions, lack of food and water, beatings and the long roll call standing in blistering heat for hours at a time during the Tenko.
During these hard years the Nursing Sisters of the QAs still administered nursing care to the other prisoners despite their own sufferings and their efforts are described by Mark Felton in The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese.
Chris
www.qaranc.co.uk
The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese covers many difficult accounts of the horrors faced by the Nursing Sisters and also those of civilians caught up in the invasions of Hong Kong and Singapore by Japan's soldiers. Many are first-hand accounts and tell of the atrocities that patients, nursing and medical staff were subjected to as British Military Hospital Bowen Road Hong Kong and BMH Singapore were overrun by Japanese troops.
Such a book cannot be written or read without horror at these sad real life events and Mark Felton should be applauded for bringing these events to the modern day reader and members of the QAs. He gives a balanced view and describes the culture of Japan in that era to explain why the Japanese soldiers committed such atrocities as killing patients on operating beds, shooting unarmed Medical Officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, raping nurses and imprisoning Sisters of the QAs for several years in degrading and life threatening conditions.
Later chapters explore the deplorable conditions that children, civilian women and Nursing Sisters of the QAIMNS (now the QARANC) endured at the hands of the Japanese prison guards in the internment camps. This includes narratives and interviews of survivors who recall the unsanitary conditions, lack of food and water, beatings and the long roll call standing in blistering heat for hours at a time during the Tenko.
During these hard years the Nursing Sisters of the QAs still administered nursing care to the other prisoners despite their own sufferings and their efforts are described by Mark Felton in The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese.
Chris
www.qaranc.co.uk
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