1-19-14
I mentioned in a way – earlier post that I had just finished reading No Ordinary Joes, an amazing book about about captured submariners who endured the bulk of the war in squalid prisoner-of-war conditions working as slave laborers in Japanese factories that made war materials.
I have just recently finished another book about the same subject: Unbroken (by the same author that wrote Seabiscuit; Laura Hillenbrand.) It’s a hell of a story about a very compelling character – an American Olympic athlete who finds himself in a B-24 crew and is shot down over the waters of the South Pacific. I won’t elaborate any more than that.
Japan “signed” the Geneva Convention but never ratified it – and completely ignored it’s provisions in their prisoner of war “camps.” The horrors endured by American and Allied prisoners was unbelievable. Read it if you can – however, it seems that Anjelina Jolie is involved in the making of Unbroken into a movie and is currently on location in Australia. Like any other book movie – it will likely “fall short” of the book, however.
steve