Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps

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By Sarah Kovner ’95

Published Aug. 13, 2020

In Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps (Harvard University Press), Sarah Kovner ’95 suggests that suffering in these camps was more a result of poor planning and minimal oversight than an intentional program to mistreat prisoners of war, providing valuable context for modern POW debates.

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