太平洋の生還者
A nonfiction work tracing Japanese prisoners of war who helped produce surrender leaflets in a U.S. camp near the end of the Pacific War. It explores the complex psychology of defeat and choices made under extreme conditions.
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Work Information
太平洋の生還者 reflects its age and human lives through the perspective of 上前淳一郎.
Through testimony and documents, the book depicts another war that existed outside the battlefield. It asks what honor, humiliation, and survival meant to those involved.
Review Summaries
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Readers tend to value the way the subject is approached and the calmness of the prose. The work is received less as a fast-moving narrative than as one to read carefully for its historical setting and inner lives.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 文藝春秋
- Published
- 1976-07-01
- Pages
- 302 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784163338507
- ISBN-10
- 4163338500
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
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