This is the Bibliography containing the sources I used to write this History Research paper. You can find a book for your research papers, essays or just for reading. These books were very interesting and made good reading.
Primary Sources
Alexander, Irvin. Surviving Bataan and Beyond: Colonel Irvin Alexander’s Odyssey as a Japanese Prisoner of War. Edited by Dominic J. Caraccilo. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 1999.
Ex-POW's memoirs containing information on conditions of camps, men, food, medical facilities and treatment of various illnesses.
Bilek, Tony, and Gene O'Connell. No Uncle Sam: The Forgotten of Bataan. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=109690874.
Ex-POWs memoirs containing information on the conditions of Zero Ward in the hospital at Cabanatuan, his recovery from death’s door, his several bouts with beriberi and how he was treated.
Charles, Robert H.. Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma Thailand Death Railway: A Memoir. St. Paul: Zenith Press, 1988.
Ex-POW’s memoirs containing information on a Colonial Dutch army doctor (Dr. Hekking) who was an herbalist and used many other unconventional methods to keep POWs alive.
Donovan, William N. M.D.. P.O.W. in the Pacific: Memoirs of an American Doctor in World War II. Edited by Josephine Donovan. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1998.
Ex-POW’s memoirs of an American doctor containing information on how he treated other POWs with beriberi, scabies, tuberculosis and other diseases. (interned at Bilibid Prison Camp Philippines)
Jackson, Charles R. Major. I Am Alive: A United States Marine’s Story of Survival in a World War II Japanese POW Camp. Toronto: Random House Ballantine Publishing Group, 2003.
Ex-POW’s memoirs that give a different perspective on the hierarchy set up in Cabanatuan POW camp. He also tells the stories of other POWs and the notorious commodant of Cabanatuan.
Knox, Donald. Death March, The Survivors of Bataan. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
Collection of Ex-POW oral histories from the Bataan Death March, Davao, Cabanatuan Philippines and Mukden.
LaForte, Robert S., and Ronald E. Marcello, eds. The Ordeal of American POWs in Burma, 1942-1945: Building the Death Railway . Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1993.
A collection of oral histories from interviews of ex-POWs who were interned in Thailand and Burma. It contains information on conditions of POW hospitals, medical personnel, and treatment of tropical ulcers, Beriberi, Malaria, dysentery and other diseases.
MacCarthy, Aidan. A Doctor’s War. Cork: The Collins Press, 2005.
Ex-POW’s memoirs of a British doctor captured in Java and containing information on conditions of camp, symptoms and treatment of malaria, dysentery, beriberi, leprosy, parasites as well as treatment of common disorders of the skin, bowels, eyes and ears.
Machi, Mario. Under the Rising Sun: Memories of a Japanese Prisoner of War,. Singapore: Wolfenden, 1994.
Ex-POW’s memoirs of a marine medic who was rewarded the bronze star after the war for his work with the sick and disabled prisoners of Cabanatuan POW camp hospital.
Mcgowran, Tom. Beyond the Bamboo Screen: Scottish Prisoners of War under the Japanese : Extracts from Newsletters of the Scottish Far East Prisoner of War Association and Other Sources. Dunfermline, Scotland: Cualann Press, 1999. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101280800.
Collection of POW survival stories from newsletters and other sources.
Michel, John J. A. Mr. Michel's War: From Manila to Mukden: an American Navy Officer's War with the Japanese, 1941-1945. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1998. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=84370628.
Ex-POW’s memoirs containing conditions of men, camp, food and sanitation.
Military Intelligence Department. Prisoners of War in the Philippine Islands. Washington, DC: September 20, 1944.
Official US Government report made shortly after the war containing an overview of the medical supplies or lack of, conditions of medical facilities and hospital in POW camps in the Philippines.
Norquist, Ernest O. “Three Years in Paradise: A GI's Prisoner-of-War Diary, 1942-1945” The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 63, No. 1 Autumn, 1979. 2-35. JSTOR. www.jstor.org.
Ex-POW’s memoirs containing information on camp conditions, food, morale and illness.
Office of the Provost Marshal General. Cabanatuan Camp One: Report on American Prisoners of War Interned By the Japanese in the Philippines. Washington, DC: November 19, 1945.
Official US Government report made shortly after the war containing an overview of the medical supplies or lack of, conditions of medical facilities and hospital in Cabanatuan POW Camp Philippines.
Smyth, Charley J. ., Ann Kaiser. “Acute Bacillary Dysentery.” The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 43, No. 12. (Dec., 1943): 1098-1100. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3456380.
Medical information on dysentery causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention during World War II
Shabart, Elmer M.D. Memoirs of a Barbed Wire Surgeon. Oakland: Rengent Pres, 1996.
Ex-POW’s memoirs of a surgeon containing information on performing surgery with no surgical instruments, conditions of hospital and dentistry (Bataan to Mukden)
Secondary Sources
Bower, Bruce. “Consequences of Captivity,” Science News, Vol. 119, No. 12 (Mar. 21, 1981), pp. 188-189+191. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3965852.
Information on the physiological effects of long term captivity on people
Carpenter, Kenneth J. Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=105651622.
Information on causes, symptoms, preventions and cure of Beriberi among POWs and civilians.
Daws, Gavin. Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs in World War II in the Pacific. New York: Harper Perennial 1996.
Information on Japanese POW camps throughout Asia in WWII, well research and well written.
Donovan, William N. M.D.. P.O.W. in the Pacific: Memoirs of an American Doctor in World War II.. Edited by Josephine Donovan. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1998.
Contains researched background information to document and compliment the memoirs of ex-POW William Donovan.
Garner, David. "Malaria Bites Back." Geographical, February 2000, 54. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001153815.
Information on causes, symptoms, preventions and cure Malaria.
Glusman, John. Conduct under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese,. New York: Penguin Group, 2005.
Detailed information on the treatment of diseases and injuries by four POW doctors interned in the Philippines and later Japan includes sanitation, camp conditions and personal ordeals.
Havers, R. P. W. Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience: The Changi POW Camp, Singapore, 1942-45. New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=104553714.
Contains information on Changi POW camp in Singapore, this camp was a staging area where POWs were held here until needed at various work projects throughout the region such as the Burma Railway.
Knox, Donald. Death March, The Survivors of Bataan. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
Contains background information in the introduction before various sections of the book.
LaForte, Robert S., and Ronald E. Marcello, eds. The Ordeal of American POWs in Burma, 1942-1945: Building the Death Railway . Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1993.
Contains background information in introduction before each individual POW account.
Matus, Victorino. "Back to Bataan." National Review, October 1, 2001,. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002417157.
A book review of Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission, by Hampton Sides. Contains concise information of the raid on Cabanatuan POW Camp in the Philippines that occurred 1945
Mayo, Merle. “Nursing Care in Bacillary Dysentery,” The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 50, No. 5 (May, 1950), pp. 304-305. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3467857.
Information on bacillary dysentery
McCoy, G. W. “Control of Amoebic Dysentery.” Public Health Reports (1896-1970): Vol. 49, No. 11 (Mar. 16, 1934): 359-360. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4581109.
Medical information on dysentery causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention.
Mcgowran, Tom. Beyond the Bamboo Screen: Scottish Prisoners of War under the Japanese : Extracts from Newsletters of the Scottish Far East Prisoner of War Association and Other Sources. Dunfermline, Scotland: Cualann Press, 1999. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101280800.
Collection of POW stories in newsletters and other sources which also contains facts on the war, location of camps, conditions of camps and other details which had been researched by editor.
Morris, Peter Sir. “Sir Michael Francis Addison Woodruff” Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 51, (2005): 456-471. JSTOR. www.jstor.org/stable/30036909.
Biography of a British POW doctor interned at Changi Prison who worked on a grass extracting machine to provide more vitamins to POWs.
Roland, Charles G.. Long Night’s Journey into Day: Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press (May 1, 2001).
Information on the fall of Hong Kong, events, camp conditions and medical treatment of POWs, focus on Canadian POWs and Hong Kong.
---- “Stripping Away the Veneer: P. O. W. Survival in the Far East as an Index of Cultural Atavism” The Journal of Military History, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Jan., 1989): 79-94. JSTOR. www.jstor.org/stable/1986021.
Written by a medical historian, this article contains information on POW diet, surgical instruments, diseases, sanitation, treatment of dysentery and conditions of camp.
Price, Joyce Howard. "WWII POWs Join Lawsuit against Japanese Firms." The Washington Times, September 16, 1999, 3. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001311755.
The article contains information on POWs who worked during the war under horrendous conditions for Mitsubitsu, Mitsu and Nissan.
Rundell, Walter, Jr. “Paying the Pow in World War II,” Military Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Autumn, 1958), 121-134.
Information on US payment of POWs under the Japanese.
Sides, Hampton. Ghost Soldiers, the Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission, New York: Random House, 2001
Contains information on Palawan Island massacre of POWs, Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philippines and the rescue of prisoners therein.
Tanaka, Yuki. Hidden Horrors Japanese War Crimes in World War II. 3rd ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=6963120.
The Japanese perspective of the POWs plight in Borneo, contains information on condition of camp, prisoners, medical care, supplies and war crimes
Tenenbaum, David J. "Breakthroughs Put the Bite on Malaria." Environmental Health Perspectives 110, no. 12 (2002): 760+. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000608950.
Medical information on Malaria causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention.
Wodnik, Bob. POW Survival in the Philippines and Japan: Captured Honor. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2003.
Collection of ex-POW’s memoirs detailing conditions of camp and the difficulties of adapting to repatriation. This is not primary source as the stories were written from interviews of these POWs.