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Title: Prisoner of the Japanese: From Changi to Tokyo by Tom Henling Wade ISBN: 0864176023 Publisher: Kangaroo Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Summary: An astounding book!
Comment: On 15 February 1942, the Japanese captured Singapore and took 130,000 Allied prisoners of war. One of those prisoiners was Lieutenant Tom Wade. For the next three and a half years he was to suffer the indiginity and hardships of captivity and the torture and brutality of his captors, first in Changi, then in Korea and finally in Tokyo.
This book is the story of those years in captivity. They were years of horror and despair, characterized by harsh treatment at the hands of sadistic guards who believed that a soldier who surrendered has lost all humanity. At Tokyo Headquarters in particular, Wade and his fellow POW's had to suffer the paranoid beatings and victimisation of Sergeant Matsuhiro Watanabe, who successufully avoided prosecution by the War Crimes Commission at the war's end.
Wade's moving account of his period of captivity is characterized by the sense of determination, hope and endurance which sustained all those who share his experience from the Second World War.