Linda Goetz Holmes is the first Pacific War historian appointed to advise the government Interagency Working Group declassifying documents on World War II crimes. A graduate of Wellesley College, she has been interviewing and writing about pacific prisoners of war for more than two decades. Her first book, 4000 Bowls of Rice, was published in 1994.
Guests of the Emperor, a slim but well-written and well-researched
account replete with photographs, footnotes, and a bibliography. .
. .This is a welcome addition to literature of the World War II
American POW experience.
*The Journal of America’s Military Past*
Guests of the Emperor is a work of clarity that sheds new light on
a subject that has not, until recently been studied in sufficient
depth. It is pleasing that it has proved possible to publish it
while some of the former prisoners are still alive. All too soon
the events described will have passed from living memory and it is
important that future generations can read a work that was
researched and written with the aid of people who were there. It is
illustrated with contemporary sketches, photographs and maps and
makes a positive addition to the available literature on the
suffering of Allied prisoners in the hands of Japanese. I
thoroughly recommend it.
*Journal of the Australian Naval Institute*
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