Unit 731: The Japanese Army's Secret Of Secrets
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: DJ warped. Remains in clean condition.
Behind the carefully guarded perimeters of a remote Manchurian compound, the Imperial Japanese Army conducted some of the most horrifying and meticulously concealed atrocities of the Second World War — experiments on live human subjects that the world was not meant to know about. Unit 731: The Japanese Army's Secret of Secrets chronicles the systematic programme of biological and chemical warfare research carried out by Unit 731, a clandestine division of the Japanese military, exposing the full scale of its crimes and the extraordinary post-war cover-up that allowed its perpetrators to escape justice in exchange for their data. Peter Williams and David Wallace present a rigorously researched and deeply unsettling account that forces a reckoning with one of history's most deliberately suppressed chapters. Drawing on declassified documents and survivor testimonies, the authors argue that the silence surrounding Unit 731 was not accidental but was engineered by Cold War political calculations, implicating both Japanese and American authorities. Written with the authority of investigative journalists and the moral weight of historians, this is a work that compels the reader to ask how many other secrets remain buried — and at what cost.
Author: Peter Williams And David Wallace
Format: Hardback
Published: 1989, Hodder & Stoughton
Genre: WW2
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: DJ warped. Remains in clean condition.
Behind the carefully guarded perimeters of a remote Manchurian compound, the Imperial Japanese Army conducted some of the most horrifying and meticulously concealed atrocities of the Second World War — experiments on live human subjects that the world was not meant to know about. Unit 731: The Japanese Army's Secret of Secrets chronicles the systematic programme of biological and chemical warfare research carried out by Unit 731, a clandestine division of the Japanese military, exposing the full scale of its crimes and the extraordinary post-war cover-up that allowed its perpetrators to escape justice in exchange for their data. Peter Williams and David Wallace present a rigorously researched and deeply unsettling account that forces a reckoning with one of history's most deliberately suppressed chapters. Drawing on declassified documents and survivor testimonies, the authors argue that the silence surrounding Unit 731 was not accidental but was engineered by Cold War political calculations, implicating both Japanese and American authorities. Written with the authority of investigative journalists and the moral weight of historians, this is a work that compels the reader to ask how many other secrets remain buried — and at what cost.