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"Of 63 [POW] prisoners, only seven would survive." Based on a narrative "compiled in 1946," this is the first POW account that I have found from the Rabaul area, other than from Pappy Boyington himself, who was moved out of the area. [If readers know of more titles of personal, first-hand P.O.W. accounts -- and NOT biographies or from authors who were not there, personally -- please suggest them in the Comments section down below. Thank you.] It is well worth a read, and I am so thankful that Mr. Nason published this account and made it available.

The foreword is by Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale. The glossary and photos are superb. For researchers and future young people, students, and historians, a book like this desperately needs an index and a very thorough one. The reader is left to imagine that "the 40" who were taken away by Japanese guards were all murdered. The truth would surely have been known after the war, and by Mr. Nason, so this should also be followed up in the book, in a factual Afterward section.

"For reasons unbeknownst to us, Doctors Hirano and Fushita, along with Colonel Kikuchi were neither imprisoned nor condemned. Wada, whom I hated with a passion, disappeared into the woodwork." -- Far too many evil Japanese and war criminals were allowed to escape after WWII and were never brought to justice. The 1951 Treaty of Japan (effective 1952) sold out the American POW's, in particular, and most of the other Allied POW's as well, except the Dutch, whose government had the courage and honesty to stand up for them. By about 1955, since all Japanese war criminals had been turned back over to the Japanese themselves -- thanks to the "Treaty" -- they were nearly all released from prison! One of the Japanese "doctors" mentioned above had deliberately injected POWs with the blood of a Japanese soldier who had malaria! They ALL died, as a result. This war crime should have been punished, but was not.

The dustcover has on it that "movie rights sold." Why then, has this book never been made into a closely accurate, truthful, nonfiction movie, as it should be? It does not fit in to today's Hollywood "PC." That is why.


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Horio You Next Die! Joseph G Nason Robert Lawrence Holt 9780930926113 Books Reviews

I try to read every book I can find about Rabaul POW's. Each book affords me additional information about the lives and treatment of Prisoner of war. I have personal reasons for my interest. There are several other books about this subject and can be foud on Google Search.
Joe Nason was a US Naval aviator in WW2, and was shot down over the Pacific island of Bougainville on his first combat mission. He has left an important record of the two dangerous years that he spent as a Prisoner of War in the hands of the Japanese Military Police (Kempeitai) at Rabaul on the island of New Britain. This book is historically significant, having been cited by respected Pacific War academics.

Nason's book is well-structured and shows careful attention to historical detail. His co-author, Bob Holt, seems to have made an excellent contribution in helping Joe to produce such a readable work.

Nason writes on many issues with impressive frankness. Some of the episodes depict the author in less-than-flattering situations, and he is to be applauded for including them and not being tempted to edit history. The dire circumstances of Nason's captivity are interspersed with flashbacks to his earlier romantic lifestyle, training as a debonair young aviator, and the book also contains many interesting photos. Some of the most poignant illustrations are facsimiles of the official letters that Nason's family received from the US Government declaring him first missing, then dead, then, thanks to a radio broadcast by the Japanese of a letter he wrote to his fiancé, resurrected to official life.

However, Nason's survival as a POW was imperilled almost daily; nearly 90% of his fellow prisoners in Rabaul died. Of these, a large group were massacred following the destruction of their prison by Allied bombing in March 1944, the others gradually wasted away due to extreme malnutrition. Notably, two died just before the end of the war after being injected with malarial blood by a crackpot Japanese doctor. They had been offered one piece of fruit each for agreeing to participate in this "experiment", without knowing its nature in advance.

Several Japanese and Pidgin English phrases are used in the text. There is a good Glossary in the back of the book which explains them.

Nason draws interesting pen-portraits of his fellow prisoners. There are some very moving moments as many of these familiar characters gradually succumb to disease and exhaustion. Miraculously, Nason kept surviving despite often being in poorer physical condition than some of the men who didn't make it.

By far the most notable character portrayed in the narrative is the captured Australian coast-watcher John Murphy, an experienced island administrator who was able to assert some moral authority over their guards. Murphy repeatedly saved the lives of his fellow inmates, stealing vital supplies from under the noses of the Japanese, and playing a dangerous psychological game to shame the Kempeitai into occasionally providing better rations. Even after the Japanese surrender, Murphy probably saved the POWs once more by quickly fetching Japanese officers when two "die-hard" former guards appeared ready to shoot the six survivors. Amazingly, the Australian Army later attempted to court-martial Murphy for treason - alleging that he had revealed secret Intelligence to the Japanese. Thankfully all charges were dismissed and Murphy was honourably acquitted. (This action seems symptomatic of Australia's guilty scramble to find scapegoats following the appalling Rabaul disaster, where the vast majority of several thousand POWs who passed through this cursed tropical "paradise" ended up dead.)

Interestingly, Nason also describes the personalities of the individual Japanese guards, who ranged from brutally fanatical to covertly helpful. Several of these guards were to pay with their lives after the war for the maltreatment of Nason's comrades. But yet again, Australian justice appears slipshod, and the most guilty may not have been punished.

The end of the book provides evidence of the amazing lack of malice affecting Nason today - although on one business trip to Japan, where he experienced nothing but courtesy, he did have to depart early because of the bad memories that the foreign environment stirred up. Nason kept in touch with his fellow "Horios" (prisoners) and portrays their regaining of normal life in an incredibly resilient way. His book, in the end, is an uplifting testament to the joy and preciousness of life, and a condemnation of the lunacy of war.

Authentic, carefully-crafted and inspirational, this book is everything that fake POW histories like "Hotel Tacloban" are not.
"Of 63 [POW] prisoners, only seven would survive." Based on a narrative "compiled in 1946," this is the first POW account that I have found from the Rabaul area, other than from Pappy Boyington himself, who was moved out of the area. [If readers know of more titles of personal, first-hand P.O.W. accounts -- and NOT biographies or from authors who were not there, personally -- please suggest them in the Comments section down below. Thank you.] It is well worth a read, and I am so thankful that Mr. Nason published this account and made it available.

The foreword is by Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale. The glossary and photos are superb. For researchers and future young people, students, and historians, a book like this desperately needs an index and a very thorough one. The reader is left to imagine that "the 40" who were taken away by Japanese guards were all murdered. The truth would surely have been known after the war, and by Mr. Nason, so this should also be followed up in the book, in a factual Afterward section.

"For reasons unbeknownst to us, Doctors Hirano and Fushita, along with Colonel Kikuchi were neither imprisoned nor condemned. Wada, whom I hated with a passion, disappeared into the woodwork." -- Far too many evil Japanese and war criminals were allowed to escape after WWII and were never brought to justice. The 1951 Treaty of Japan (effective 1952) sold out the American POW's, in particular, and most of the other Allied POW's as well, except the Dutch, whose government had the courage and honesty to stand up for them. By about 1955, since all Japanese war criminals had been turned back over to the Japanese themselves -- thanks to the "Treaty" -- they were nearly all released from prison! One of the Japanese "doctors" mentioned above had deliberately injected POWs with the blood of a Japanese soldier who had malaria! They ALL died, as a result. This war crime should have been punished, but was not.

The dustcover has on it that "movie rights sold." Why then, has this book never been made into a closely accurate, truthful, nonfiction movie, as it should be? It does not fit in to today's Hollywood "PC." That is why.