Death on the Hellships - Prisoners at sea in the Pacific War

Michno draws on American, British, Australian, and Dutch POW accounts as well as Japanese convoy histories, recently declassified radio intelligence reports, and a wealth of archival sources to present for the first time a detailed picture of what happened on board the so-called Japanese hellships: POWs crammed by the thousandsinto the holds of ships moved from island to island an put to work.