Unit 731 : laboratory of the devil, Auschwitz of the east : Japanese biological warfare in China 1933-45 / Yan-Jun Yang, Yue-Him Tam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yang, Yanjun, author.

Tan, Ruqian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan. Rikugun. Kantōgun. Butai, Dai 731.

Biological warfare--Research--Japan.

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.

Atrocities.

World War, 1939-1945--Japan.

World War, 1939-1945--China.

War crime trials--United States.

War crime trials--Japan.

War crime trials.

History.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Biological warfare.

Research.

Biological warfare--Research.

Japan.

World War, 1939-1945--Biological warfare--Research.

World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--Japan.

Human experimentation in medicine--Japan--History--20th century.

Regimental histories.

Japan. Rikugun. Kantōgun. Butai, Dai 731--History.

China.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Japan. Rikugun. Kantōgun. Butai, Dai 731.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

142 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : Illustrations, fascimiles, portraits ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Laboratory of the devil, Auschwitz of the east : Japanese biological warfare in China 1933-45.

Unit Seven Hundred Thirty-One

Unit Seven Thirty-One

Japanese biological warfare in China 1933-45

Place of Publication:

[Stroud] : Fonthill Media Limited, 2018.

Summary:

"This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of the Second World War. Manufacture and the use of biological weapons, the entire process of preparation and implementation of germ warfare, with the reflection on war and human nature, medical and ethical issues, is given by the testimony of the veterans of Unit 731. This evidence is provided by the surviving Chinese labourers and the families of the victims. The book focuses on five aspects: first, the inhuman medical crimes of Unit 731 weapons, the biological combats, and human experiments; secondly, the war damage and the postwar effects of biological war by Unit 731 brought to China and other Asian countries; thirdly, the survey and cover-up at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials; fourthly the protection status of the site with development status of the exhibition and international exchanges of the Unit 731 Museum; fifthly and finally, there is a separate chapter discussing Japanese chemical warfare."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Formation, Expansion, and End of Unit 731

Shirō Ishii and His Followers

After the War, Stories from Victims' Families

Human Experimentation: Medical Ethics and Medical Crimes of Unit 731

Bacteriological Warfare

Investigation, Cover-up, and Exchange

Protection of Sites and Museum, Epilogue: Easat and West, Harbin to Auschwitz

Appendix: Events Timeline.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1781556784

9781781556788

OCLC:

1042287845

Publisher Number:

99981052528