Using archival, oral and literary sources, Blackburn and Hack, along with an impressive team of international contributors, rectify the obscured picture of the Japanese captive by bringing together, for the first time, a collection of essays covering an extremely broad range of forgotten captives.

Introduction Part 1: Background 1. Captivities in the East: Contrasting Experiences, Contrasting Narratives Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn Part 2: National Memories 2. Memory and the POW Experience: The United Kingdom Sibylla Jane Flower 3. Beyond Slogans: Assessing the Experiences and the History of Australian Prisoners of War of the Japanese Hank Nelson 4. Monument and Ceremony: The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial and the Incorporation of Prisoners of War in ANZAC Lachlan Grant 5. Americans under Nippon Scott Corbett 6. Canadian Experience of the Pacific War: Betrayal and Captivity Gregory Johnson 7. Dutch Experiences in Japanese Captivity Remco Raben and Peter Keppy Part 3: Forgotten Captivities, Contrasting Narratives 8. Remembering War and Forgetting Civilians: The Ambiguous Position of Civilian Internees in Commemorations of the Pacific War Christina Twomey 9. Dutch Civilians in Indonesia, 1942-1945: Crime and Authority in Japanese Camps Jacco van den Heuvel 10. Dutch Evacuees in Thailand, 1946: Waiting to Go Home Arno Ooms 11. Japanese Guards in Film and Memory: 'White Skin, Yellow Commander' Kaori Maekawa 12. Women and Children Internees: Comparing and Contrasting Experiences by Gender and Youth Bernice Archer 13. Hide and Seek: Children of Japanese Fathers and Indies European Mothers Eveline Buchheim 14. The Colonial Subject as Heroic Captive: Sybil Kathigasu and Elizabeth Choy in Biography and Autobiography Lim Pui Huen 15. A World Wide Myth: Ian Watt and the Myth of the Bridge over the River Kwai Roger Bourke 16. The Men Who Never Were: Indian POWs in the Pacific 1941-1945 Gerry Douds