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Japanese Prisoners of War
[Buy it!] | Phillip Towle (Editor), Margaret Kosuge (Editor) | USD 23.09
(Tue Jun 4 12:51:07 2024) | AbebooksUK | CHARLES BOSSOM | ISBN10: 1852851929, ISBN13: 9781852851927, [publisher: Continnuum-3PL, Hambledon & London] Hardcover First Edition Dust jacket complete, unclipped, fading to spine colour. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 216 pages clean and tight. Dimensions: 15.6 x 1.4 x 594.2 cm. During World War II the Japanese were stereotyped in the European imagination as fanatical, cruel, almost inhuman - an image reflected in most books and films about prisoner of war in the Far East. While the Japanese certainly treated those they captured badly, behaving far worse to Chinese and native captives than to Europeans, the conventional view of the Japanese is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognize that the Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis trial, at a particular period of their history, and that their attitudes were influenced by a combination of their perception of their own racial identity mixed with a powerful historical tradition. This collection of essays, by both western and Japanese scholars, aims to see the question from a historical viewpoint, and from both a western and Japanese perspective, looking at it in the light of both longer-term influences, notably the Japanese attempt to establish themselves as an honorary white race. The essays also examine particular instances. Conditions in the almost self-run camp at Changi contrasted remarkably with those on the Burma Railway, where disease and a failure to provide supplies caused terrible suffering. Size: 8vo
[Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]
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The Philokalia Volume 3: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth Philokalia Vol. 3
[Buy it!] | GEH. PALMER PHILIP SHARRARD BP. KALLISTOS WARE G. E. | USD 21.00
(Tue Jun 4 12:50:56 2024) | Biblio | Eighth Day Books | Faber & Faber, August Date: 1986. Paper Back. New. The Philokalia is a four-volume collection of writings from early Church fathers, ascetics and theologians. This third volume presents St. Philotheos of Sinai, Ilias the Presbyter, a spiritual predecessor of St. Gregory Palamas, St. Peter of Damaskos (eleventh century), whose 'Treasury of Divine Knowledge' occupies more space in The Philokalia than any other writer save Maximos, and St. Symeon Metaphrastis' 'Paraphrase of the Homilies of St. Makarios of Egypt.' Its themes of unseen warfare in the human heart, of synergeia or co-operation between divine grace and human will, and the possibility of conscious assurance of the indwelling grace of the Holy Spirit foreshadow the spirituality of St. Symeon the New Theologian. 457 pp. 1986. Faber & Faber ISBN 0571175252 9780571175253 [US] |
