Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War

This detailed chronicle of the Japanese treatment of POWs during World War II reveals the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea.

Gregory 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.

His findings are startling.