Hell On Earth: Aging Faster, Dying Sooner- Canadian Prisoners Of The Japanese During World War II (1997) By Dave McIntosh
 
In 1997 a book exclusively dealing with Canadian POWs in Japanese hands finally appeared. Former Legion Magazine staff writer David McIntosh’s Hell on Earth: Aging Faster, Dying Sooner, Canadian Prisoners of the Japanese During World War II, easily falls within the category of ‘angry national bias’.
 
Half of McIntosh’s book is dedicated to driving the point across, in the starkest possible terms, that the Japanese brutalized their Canadian captives, while his secondary argument is that Canadian survivors of Japanese prison camps were betrayed by their own government after the war.
 
Ottawa failed to provide adequate compensation and prevented veterans from suing the Japanese government for fear that litigation would upset an important trading relationship. McIntosh accused the Canadian government of giving “a much higher priority to its relations with Japan than its relations with some of its own citizens” and declared that the battle was a “British waste of Canadian manpower.”
 
Hard Cover With Dust Jacket
277 pages
In Good Condition