Author: Adolf Frank ReelPublisher: Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The case of General Yamashita
Author: Adolf Frank ReelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258926274
Category : War Crime trials
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
The Tiger of Malaya
Author: Aubrey Saint KenworthyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258119287
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Life And Death Of A Japanese General
Author: John Deane PotterPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786259397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
LEYTE...LUZON...MANILA...places where thousands of Americans died, bloody battles that finally turned the tide for America in World War II. Who was the man who led the Japanese to fight so tenaciously in the face of certain defeat, who cost the Americans such a hard-won victory? While Manila was being razed and raped by Japanese troops, while his soldiers were dying of starvation in the hills, Tomoyuki Yamashita finally bowed to the orders of his Emperor and surrendered to American forces. Official historian Robert Ross says of the brilliant general, “No one can ever dispute the fact that Yamashita executed one of the most effective delaying actions in the whole history of warfare.” Yamashita was the first Japanese to be tried as a war criminal; as general he was held responsible for the atrocities committed by the soldiers under his command. Was his conviction in accordance with the code of American justice? Or was he a scapegoat of war, was he sent to the scaffold in vengeful retaliation for overwhelming American losses? Foreign correspondent and biographer John Deane Potter interviewed General Yamashita in the military prison near Manila and later spoke at length with the general’s widow, who gave him access to her husband’s papers, books, and photographs.
Yamashita's Ghost
Author: Allan A. RyanPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700620141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"I don't blame my executioners. I will pray God bless them. " So said General Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japan's most accomplished military commander, as he stood on the scaffold in Manila in 1946. His stoic dignity typified the man his U.S. Army defense lawyers had come to deeply respect in the first war crimes trial of World War II. Moments later, he was dead. But had justice been served? Allan A. Ryan reopens the case against Yamashita to illuminate crucial questions and controversies that have surrounded his trial and conviction, but also to deepen our understanding of broader contemporary issues-especially the limits of command accountability. The atrocities of 1944 and 1945 in the Philippines-rape, murder, torture, beheadings, and starvation, the victims often women and children-were horrific. They were committed by Japanese troops as General Douglas MacArthur's army tried to recapture the islands. Yamashita commanded Japan's dispersed and besieged Philippine forces in that final year of the war. But the prosecution conceded that he had neither ordered nor committed these crimes. MacArthur charged him, instead, with the crime-if it was one-of having "failed to control" his troops, and convened a military commission of five American generals, none of them trained in the law. It was the first prosecution in history of a military commander on such a charge. In a turbulent and disturbing trial marked by disregard of the Army's own rules, the generals delivered the verdict they knew MacArthur wanted. Yamashita's lawyers appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, whose controversial decision upheld the conviction over the passionate dissents of two justices who invoked, for the first time in U.S. legal history, the concept of international human rights. Drawing from the tribunal's transcripts, Ryan vividly chronicles this tragic tale and its personalities. His trenchant analysis of the case's lingering question-should a commander be held accountable for the crimes of his troops, even if he has no knowledge of them-has profound implications for all military commanders.
The Trial of General Tomoyuki Yamashita
Author: Richard L. LaelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : War crime trials
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A Trial of Generals
Author: Lawrence TaylorPublisher: St Augustines Text Ed
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Justice Denied?
Author: Benjamin GowlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : War crime trials
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Trial of General Tomoyuki Yamashita, United States Military Commission, Manila, 8th October - 7th December, 1945
Author: United Nations War Crimes CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Author: L. H. Redford
Author: