FACTORIES OF DEATH. JAPANESE BIOLOGICAL WARFARE 1932 - 45 IN SOUTH AFRICA

  Routledge, 1997. Book Condition: Used. This Book is in Good Condition. Clean Copy With Light Amount of Wear, some spine sunning and a crease on the top edge of the front cover. Scrape on top text edge. Owner inscribed and signed on front free end paper, DJ  O'Hanlon, CDR SAN (RETD) Ex RN, Ex POW China and Japan, 1941 - 45.   Summary: This text details the activities of Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army, a formation dedicated to conducting bacterial warfare research in Manchuria. Under the command of Colonel Ishii Shiro, the unit conducted many experiments in the 1930s and 1940s which involved the use of living subjects. The author shows how the United States government provided immunity from investigation for men who thereby avoided war crimes trials, so that the US could acquire the results of Japanese expertise in bacteriological warfare. 297 pp.