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Yamashita's Ghost : War Crimes, MacArthur's Justice, and Command Accountability / Allan A. Ryan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ryan, Allan A.
- Series:
- Modern war studies.
- Modern war studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Command responsibility (International law).
- War crime trials--Philippines--Manila.
- War crime trials.
- MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964.
- MacArthur, Douglas.
- Yamashita, Tomobumi, 1885-1946--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Yamashita, Tomobumi.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (409 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The dramatic story of the 1945 war crimes trial of General Tomoyuki Yamashita, who was charged with atrocities he neither committed nor ordered--and of which he likely had no knowledge. Even so, he was convicted and, following a Supreme Court review, executed for having failed to control his troops.
- Contents:
- Law and war
- Tomoyuki Yamashita
- Malaya and Singapore
- Leyte
- Luzon
- Military commissions
- The charge : the accountability of command
- The prosecution : the hearsay problem
- The prosecution : the victims
- The prosecution : the defense scores
- The prosecution : the conclusion
- The defense : setting the stage
- The defense : Yamashita testifies
- The verdict
- The aftermath
- The Supreme Court
- The forties : Nuremberg and Tokyo
- The seventies : My Lai
- The twenty-first century : tribunals
- Today.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-372) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780700620555
- 0700620559
- OCLC:
- 904084415
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