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  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.

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1971 first edition hardcover with dust jacket. 243 pages. R50 postage in SA.                                                 In the autumn of 1944, as American forces grew stronger in the Pacific, the Japanese were realizing they were outnumbered and resolved to do something drastic. Drawing from a legend 700 years old, about the gods providing a typhoon (or as they called it a "divine wind") for their protection, the Japanese organized "special attack forces" to provide their own man-made divine thunder.. This is an absorbing account of the Japanese Naval Special Attack Suicide Fliers, the "Kamikazes" - squadrons of airplanes that would purposely crash dive into Allied ships, often with devastating results. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, and a bibliography.

1971 first edition hardcover with dust jacket. 243 pages. R60 postage in SA.                                                 In the autumn of 1944, as American forces grew stronger in the Pacific, the Japanese were realizing they were outnumbered and resolved to do something drastic. Drawing from a legend 700 years old, about the gods providing a typhoon (or as they called it a "divine wind") for their protection, the Japanese organized "special attack forces" to provide their own man-made divine thunder.. This is an absorbing account of the Japanese Naval Special Attack Suicide Fliers, the "Kamikazes" - squadrons of airplanes that would purposely crash dive into Allied ships, often with devastating results. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, and a bibliography.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely exchanged one barbed-wire battleground for another. In the camps the war was eternal. There was the war against the German military, fought with everything from taunting humour to outright sabotage, with a literal spanner put in the works of the factories and salt mines prisoners were forced to slave in. British PoWs also fought a valiant war against the conditions in which they were mired. They battled starvation, disease, Prussian cruelties, boredom, and their own inner demons. And, of course, they escaped. Then escaped again. No less than 29 officers at Holzminden camp in burrowed their way out via a tunnel (dug with a chisel and trowel) in the Great Escape of the Great War. It was war with heart-breaking consequences: more than PoWs died, many of them murdered, to be buried in shallow unmarked graves. Using contemporary records - from prisoners' diaries to letters home to poetry - John Lewis-Stempel reveals the death, life and, above all, the glory of Britain's warriors behind the wire. For it was in the PoW camps, far from the blasted trenches, that the true spirit of the Tommy was exemplified. Features Summary The War Behind the Wire is the new book by the acclaimed author of Six Weeks which depicted the extraordinary story of British junior officers in the First World War in such harrowing detail... Author John Lewis-Stempel Publisher Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd) Release date Pages 288 ISBN ISBN

Size A4. Softcover in good condition with 60 pages and b/w photographs. The decision to build the railway was made by The Japanese Cabinet following the decisive defeat of its navy at Battle of Midway 1942. The Japanese had also planned to use the railway to launch an attack on India. Postage in RSA = R55.00.  

ENTER THE DEATH GAMES Synopsis: He's fast and furious. Cougar swears to kill chig and his family as they have killed his parents. Cougar hires a japanese ninja and a thai boxer to seek revenge for their death. Cougar is however killed by wah. Cougar's brother palmer vows to seek revenge and will do all in his power.     Starring: Billy Chow Liang Yan   Category: Action, Martial Art   Age Restriction: 13 V

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious "Death Railway" and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work on a Japanese "hellship," his ship was torpedoed, and nearly everyone on board the ship died. Not Urquhart. After five days adrift on a raft in the South China Sea, he was rescued by a Japanese whaling ship. His luck would only get worse as he was taken to Japan and forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later, he was just ten miles from ground zero when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. In late August , he was freed by the American Navy--a living skeleton--and had his first wash in three and a half years. This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen, who survived not just one, but three encounters with death, any of which should have probably killed him. Silent for over fifty years, this is Urquhart's inspirational tale in his own words. It is as moving as any memoir and as exciting as any great war movie. Features Summary * An extraordinary and moving tale by an ex-POW and last surviving member of the Gordon Highlanders regiment that was captured by the Japanese in Singapore... Author Alistair Urquhart Publisher Abacus Release date Pages 312 ISBN ISBN

BLOODY FIGHT Synopsis: School vs. school, style vs. style, Japanese boxing vs. Chinese kung fu, from the opening credit sequence to the final climactic reel, The Bloody Fight is non-stop martial arts action...old school style. The master of a local kung fu school is challenged to fight to the death by Chan Cheng, a Japanese boxing master wandering the countryside testing his superior skills. Chan Cheng's martial arts skills prove too strong for the master, who is overcome and killed in combat. Now it is up to wayward student Chi Siu Hau (Alan Tang) to avenge his one-time master's death. But can Chi be convinced to fight to the death, and can he win The Bloody Fight?     Starring: Alan Tang   Category: Martial Art   Age Restriction: PG

2009. Soft cover, 330 pages. Very good condition; like new. Under 1kg The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.   The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remain largely untold. Thousands of middle-class girls, barely out of school, were plucked from sheltered backgrounds, subjected to training regimes unimaginably tough by today's standards, and sent forth to share the harsh conditions of the fighting services. They had to deal with the most appalling suffering, yet most found reserves of inner strength that carried them through episodes of unrelieved horror.   Over 200 nurses died, torpedoed in hospital ships, bombed in field hospitals or murdered in Japanese prison camps. Dozens won medals for gallantry. From the beaches of Dunkirk, to Singapore and D-Day, they saw it all. Whether tending burned pilots from the Battle of Britain or improvising medical treatment in Japanese death camps, their dedication was second to none. This is their story.   

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 9 working days After his partner is brutally murdered by the infamous assassin Rogue (Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Statham) vows to find the elusive killer and personally avenge his partner's death. But Rogue proves untraceable until three years later when he resurfaces to ignite a bloody turf war between Chinese mob leader Chang and Japanese Yakuza boss Shiro. Eager to capture Rogue once and for all, Crawford leads his team of crime specialists headlong into the conflict. But Crawford's thirst for vengeance jeopardises his professional judgement, and as the violence escalates, Crawford finally comes face to face with his enemy only to discover that nothing can be done about Rogue or his plan as nothing is quite what it seems. Features Summary After his partner is brutally murdered, an FBI agent vows to avenge his partner's death. Contributors Jet Li (Actor), Jason Statham (Actor) Format Blu-ray disc Release date

2014. Soft cover, 264 pages. Very good condition. Tightly bound. Under 1kg.  This is the little known story of  Singapore's Outram Road Gaol   and the POWs who endured it. Deprivation here was so extreme that there really was a fate worse than death. Powerful and shocking, Stubborn Buggers tells of twelve Australian POWs who fought and survived the battle for Malaya, then captivity and slave labour, followed by the unimaginable hardships of Outram Road Gaol. It is a story of how they dealt with the brutality of the Japanese military police, the feared Kempeitai. And it is the story of how they found a way to go on living even when facing a future of no hope and slow death. But Stubborn Buggers is about more than suffering and brutality. It is also a tale of grit, determination and larrikin humour. It is very much about the triumph of the human spirit.   

NEW FIST OF FURY Synopsis: The worlds number one action star is back. During the fierce fighting of World War II, the heroes sometimes came from unusual places. Jackie Chan plays the role of a young pickpocket who must fight for his life against the Japanese war machine.  After his fiancée's school is destroyed and the Master murdered, the fiancée teaches him a new and deadly art (and one never before revealed on the screen.)  Together, they avenge the death of the Master in a battle of unsurpassed violence and bloodshed.    Starring: Jackie Chan Chen Sing   Category: Action, Martial Art    Age Restriction: PG

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 9 working days After his partner is brutally murdered by the infamous assassin Rogue (Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Statham) vows to find the elusive killer and personally avenge his partner's death. But Rogue proves untraceable until three years later when he resurfaces to ignite a bloody turf war between Chinese mob leader Chang and Japanese Yakuza boss Shiro. Eager to capture Rogue once and for all, Crawford leads his team of crime specialists headlong into the conflict. But Crawford's thirst for vengeance jeopardises his professional judgement, and as the violence escalates, Crawford finally comes face to face with his enemy only to discover that nothing can be done about Rogue or his plan as nothing is quite what it seems.

Carl Rinsch directs this reimagining of the Japanese tale about the revenge of the 47 Ronin starring Keanu Reeves. With the underhand machinations of their rival Lord Kira (Tadanobu Asano) blamed for the death of their master, a group of abandoned ronin recruit British-Japanese outcast Kai (Reeves) to help plan their revenge. Vastly outnumbered, but inspired by the teachings of Kuranosuke Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada), Kai and the other ronin engage in a bloody battle with forces under the command of Kira's loyal subordinate Mizuki (Rinko Kikuchi).