More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and
children living in the Philippines during World War II were
confined to internment camps following Japan's late December 1941
victories in Manila. Captured tells the story of daily
life in five different camps--the crowded housing, mounting
familial and international tensions, heavy labor, and increasingly
severe malnourishment that made the internees' rescue a race with
starvation. Frances B. Cogan explores the events behind this nearly
four-year captivity, explaining how and why this little-known
internment occurred. A thorough historical account, the book
addresses several controversial issues about the internment,
including Japanese intentions toward their prisoners and the U.S.
State Department's role in allowing the presence of American
civilians in the Philippines during wartime.
Supported by diaries, memoirs, war crimes transcripts, Japanese
soldiers' accounts, medical data, and many other sources, Captured
presents a detailed and moving chronicle of the internees' efforts
to survive. Cogan compares living conditions within the internment
camps with life in POW camps and with the living conditions of
Japanese soldiers late in the war. An afterword discusses the
experiences of internment survivors after the war, combining
medical and legal statistics with personal anecdotes to create a
testament to the thousands of Americans whose captivity haunted
them long after the war ended.
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