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Yamashita's Ghost: War Crimes, Macarthur's Justice, and Command Accountability
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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
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Author : Allan A. Ryan
Pages : 408 pages
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
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ISBN-10 : 0700620141
ISBN-13 : 9780700620142