The Sandakan POW camp and the Geneva convention -- The Sandakan death marches and the elimination of POWs -- Rape and war : the Japanese experience -- Judge Webb and Japanese cannibalism -- Japanese biological warfare plans and experiments on POWs -- Massacre of civilians at Kavieng -- Conclusion : understanding Japanese brutality in the Asia-Pacific war
Summary
Chronicles with detail, the depths of human depravity in war, the Sandakan death marches, rape, cannibalism, human experimentation, and the massacres and mistreatments of the POW's
Notes
Expanded version of work first published in 1993 as Shirarezaru sensō hanzai
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Australia, 1998
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-249) and index