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For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the Bataan Death March--one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World War II--unfolded. The prevailing interpretation of this event is simple: American prisoners of war suffered cruel treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors while Filipinos, sympathetic to the Americans, looked on.
Most survivors of the march wrote about their experiences decades after the war and a number of factors distorted their accounts. The crucial aspect of memory is central to this study--how it is constructed, by whom and for what purpose. This book questions the prevailing interpretation, reconsiders the actions of all three groups in their cultural contexts and suggests a far greater complexity. Among the conclusions is that violence on the march was largely the result of a clash of cultures--undisciplined, individualistic Americans encountered Japanese who valued order and form, while Filipinos were active, even ambitious, participants in the drama.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface 1
Introduction 5
1. Virtue and Vice 19
2. An Army's Ethos 32
3. An Army Apart 64
4. Chaos Meets Kata 95
5. The Lens of Memory 126
6. Remembering and Forgetting 151
7. The Wages of Defeat 190
8. Facing Filipinos 215
9. Kinds of Kindness 239
Conclusion 267
Chapter Notes 279
Bibliography 303
Index 317
