4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home

by Linda Goetz Holmes

Overview

SUMMARY: OVER 60,000 Australians and Americans captured by the Japanese during World War II toiled and died to build the Bridge over the River Kwai. Respected military historian Linda Goetz Holmes tells the story of one man's survival in Japanese labor camps during WWII. Amazing photographs, taken secretly by other prisoners, chronicle this dark history of Allied troops in the Pacific theatre of war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781876963828
Publisher:	Brick Tower Press
Publication date:	09/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Linda Goetz Holmes is the first Pacific War historian appointed to the U.S. Government Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, tasked with locating and declassifying documents about World War II war crimes. A graduate of Wellesley College, she has been writing about Pacific prisoners of war for 30 years, and has been interviewed many times by national and local TV and radio stations, and appeared in documentaries on the History Channel, Fox News, and ABC 20/20, to name but a few. She is also the author of:?Unjust Enrichment: How Japan’s Companies Built Post-War Fortunes Using American POWs (2001) and a frequent speaker to veterans’ groups.