Eaten by the Japanese: The Memoir of an Unknown Indian Prisoner of War
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Language: English. Brand new Book. A true story of World War II (in the words of the survivor, with essays by his son, an author): how Indian soldiers in the British army became Prisoners of War and were shipped by their Japanese captors in "torture ships" to Papua New Guinea, and how just a fraction of them, including the author, survived 3 1/2 years of horrific imprisonment, beatings, starvation, bombings and more to return home to India.John Baptist Crasta's story, written shortly after the war, was discovered and published 51 years later by son. At the time, John was 87 years old. He died less than 2 years later, after having seen his book in print. It was by reading his father's memoir that the son not only discovered his father; but decided to do all he could to make the world know about it. This book contains not just the father's memoir, but the son's essays about rediscovering his father and his feelings about the memoir.This shocking and poignant story of World War II and its forgotten Indian Prisoners of War has never been told before from the viewpoint of an ordinary Indian soldier who was there as one of its actor-victims. Nor has it ever been coupled with a moving story of fathers and sons."A classic in military history, telling the story of men trapped in a world of torture, starvation, and death"--Roger Mansell, War historian, in Tameme Magazine"You see the horror of war, without a trace of artifice, through the eyes of one who was there, the writing a simple act of catharsis. A war memoir that ranks with the best."--Professor Mark Ledbetter, Nisei University"Striking and raw, an antidote to myth. Something to be treasured. This is the kind of record that this generation is losing fast, and we need to hold on to this. It made me think of what had happened to my own father's memoirs, which were lost."--Professor Barry Fruchter.

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Language: English. Brand new Book. A true story of World War II (in the words of the survivor, with essays by his son, an author): how Indian soldiers in the British army became Prisoners of War and were shipped by their Japanese captors in "torture ships" to Papua New Guinea, and how just a fraction of them, including the author, survived 3 1/2 years of horrific imprisonment, beatings, starvation, bombings and more to return home to India.John Baptist Crasta's story, written shortly after the war, was discovered and published 51 years later by son. At the time, John was 87 years old. He died less than 2 years later, after having seen his book in print. It was by reading his father's memoir that the son not only discovered his father; but decided to do all he could to make the world know about it. This book contains not just the father's memoir, but the son's essays about rediscovering his father and his feelings about the memoir.This shocking and poignant story of World War II and its forgotten Indian Prisoners of War has never been told before from the viewpoint of an ordinary Indian soldier who was there as one of its actor-victims. Nor has it ever been coupled with a moving story of fathers and sons."A classic in military history, telling the story of men trapped in a world of torture, starvation, and death"--Roger Mansell, War historian, in Tameme Magazine"You see the horror of war, without a trace of artifice, through the eyes of one who was there, the writing a simple act of catharsis. A war memoir that ranks with the best."--Professor Mark Ledbetter, Nisei University"Striking and raw, an antidote to myth. Something to be treasured. This is the kind of record that this generation is losing fast, and we need to hold on to this. It made me think of what had happened to my own father's memoirs, which were lost."--Professor Barry Fruchter.

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A true story of World War II (in the words of the survivor, with essays by his son, an author): how Indian soldiers in the British army became Prisoners of War and were shipped by their Japanese captors in "torture ships" to Papua New Guinea, and how just a fraction of them, including the author, survived 3 1/2 years of horrific imprisonment, beatings, starvation, bombings and more to return home to India.John Baptist Crasta's story, written shortly after the war, was discovered and published 51 years later by son. At the time, John was 87 years old. He died less than 2 years later, after having seen his book in print. It was by reading his father's memoir that the son not only discovered his father; but decided to do all he could to make the world know about it. This book contains not just the father's memoir, but the son's essays about rediscovering his father and his feelings about the memoir.This shocking and poignant story of World War II and its forgotten Indian Prisoners of War has never been told before from the viewpoint of an ordinary Indian soldier who was there as one of its actor-victims. Nor has it ever been coupled with a moving story of fathers and sons."A classic in military history, telling the story of men trapped in a world of torture, starvation, and death"—Roger Mansell, War historian, in Tameme Magazine"You see the horror of war, without a trace of artifice, through the eyes of one who was there, the writing a simple act of catharsis. A war memoir that ranks with the best."—Professor Mark Ledbetter, Nisei University"Striking and raw, an antidote to myth. Something to be treasured. This is the kind of record that this generation is losing fast, and we need to hold on to this. It made me think of what had happened to my own father's memoirs, which were lost."--Professor Barry Fruchter.

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When John Baptist Crasta, a small-town Indian soldier employed in the imperial British Army in 1940, was posted to the swinging port of Singapore, he was overjoyed. Little did he know what fate had in store for him. Here, through the eyes of a simple, high-school- educated soldier and survivor, in readable and moving prose, is the untold story of thousands of Indians who fought for the British, for America, for freedom. Captured by the Japanese, tortured, starved, and occasionally eaten for dinner, they are the forgotten warriors, the Unknown Soldiers, the Invisible Men of the Second World War. At last, their story has been made public, 52 years after one of them wrote it, making him, at 88, perhaps the oldest first-time author in Indian history. Paperback, Label: Raffles, Raffles, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1999, Studio: Raffles.

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Eaten by the Japanese" is the inspiring World War II memoir of an Indian soldier in the British Indian Army-a rare surviving account of a story of thousands of Indians who have mostly been forgotten by history. Captured by the Japanese when Singapore fell, taking a moral decision not to trust the Japanese or to desert to the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army, he is taken to Rabaul in New Britain (Papua New Guinea) in a "torture ship," he miraculously survives 3 1/2 years of inhuman treatment by his Japanese captors and bombardment by Allied planes. Rescued by Australians, he returns home to India and writes this memoir in 1946, which also refers to incidents of cannibalism. He then waits another 51 years before his memoir, written in pencil, is read and published by his son, Richard Crasta, who by then is an author living in the United States. In the process of reading this book, the once-estranged son rediscovers his father, adding his own Notes and three essays to the book, which he publishes and presents to his 87-year-old father on the latter's 50th wedding anniversary. More than any book in recent memory, Eaten by the Japanese drives home the lasting effects of enforced captivity not only on the bodies but also on the minds of the prisoners. it is a book about kindness, solidarity, and collective survival, about the bonds that matter: those between one single human being and another. Not a mere story of self but an epic of collective agony. -Professor Barry Fruchter. A classic in military history, telling the story of men trapped in a world of torture, starvation, and death" Roger Mansell, War historian, in Tameme Magazine You see the horror of war, without a trace of artifice, through the eyes of one who was there, the writing a simple act of catharsis. A war memoir that ranks with the best. Professor Mark Ledbetter, Nisei University Striking and raw, an antidote to myth. Something to be treasured. It made me think of what had.

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