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  • CHINA STATION
    MARK FELTON
    A revelatory history of how Britain's military shaped China's culture and politics for more than a century. Historian Mark Felton demonstrates that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries, citing the various wars, military adventures and rebellions that regularly punctuated Sino/British relati...

    $314.00

  • THE DEVIL'S DOCTORS
    MARK FELTON
    The author of Guarding Hitler delivers "a study revealing the Japanese use of Allied POWs in medical experiments during WWII."—The Guardian   The brutal Japanese treatment of Allied POWs in WW2 has been well documented. The experiences of British, Australian and American POWs on the Burma Railway, in the mines of Formosa and in camps across the Far East, were bad enough. But th...

    $164.00

  • SLAUGHTER AT SEA
    MARK FELTON
    The author of Japan's Gestapo details the atrocities committed by the Japanese Navy during World War II. While the Japanese Navy followed many of the British Royal Navy's traditions and structures, it had a totally different approach to the treatment of its foes. Author Mark Felton has uncovered a plethora of outrages against both servicemen and civilians that make chilling and...

    $164.00

  • HOLOCAUST HEROES
    MARK FELTON
    This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the Nazis 'Final Solution. It shows that the Warsaw Uprising in Poland during April to May 1944 was not the only occasion of defiant opposition. Throughout the Nazis extermination programme Jews and other prisoners fought back agains...

    $249.00

  • NEVER SURRENDER
    MARK FELTON
    While there have been many fine books covering the appalling experiences and great courage of the many thousands of POWscaptured by the victorious Japanese during late 1941 and early 1942, escape accounts are much rarer. This is due in large part tothe fact that only a comparatively small number of brave souls attempted to escape to freedom rather than suffer brutality,starvati...

    $119.00

  • CHILDREN OF THE CAMPS
    MARK FELTON
    The author of Guarding Hitler tells the truly heart-rending stories of Caucasian and Eurasian children held captive inside Japanese internment camps.   The Japanese treatment of Allied children was as harsh and murderous as that of their parents and military POWs, but this whole episode has been overlooked. Children were plucked from comfortable colonial lives and forced to mat...

    $229.00

  • 21ST CENTURY COURAGE
    MARK FELTON
    The book examines examples of outstanding courage exhibited by people living in modern Britain. These include British servicemen and servicewomen serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, police officers, and ordinary civilians in Britain and around the world. All of the cases cited have been awarded gallantry medals by the British government since 2000.The purpose of the book is to ins...

    $129.00

  • JAPAN'S GESTAPO
    MARK FELTON
    From the author of Children of the Camps, a look at the disturbing activities of the Kempeitai, Japan's feared military and secret police. The book opens by explaining the origins, organization, and roles of the Kempeitai apparatus, which exercised virtually unlimited power throughout the Japanese Empire. Author Mark Felton reveals their criminal and collaborationist networks t...

    $119.00

  • GUARDING HITLER
    MARK FELTON
    "A hive of interesting facts and almost unbelievable stories about Adolf Hitler . . . Well worth a look. Well worth a read." — War History Online   Based on intelligence documents, personal testimonies, memoirs, and official histories, including material only declassified in 2010, Guarding Hitler provides the reader with a fascinating inside look at the secret world of Hitler's...

    $229.00

  • THE FINAL BETRAYAL
    MARK FELTON
    This book examines the period between the unconditional surrender of Japan on 14 August 1945, and the arrival of Allied liberation forces in Japanese-occupied territories after 2 September 1945. The delay handed the Japanese a golden opportunity to set their house in order before Allied war crimes investigators arrived. After 14 August groups of Allied POWs were brutally murder...

    $119.00

  • THE REAL TENKO
    MARK FELTON
    The author of Children of the Camps delves into the harrowing true stories behind the TV drama: the fate of women held in Japanese captivity during WWII.   This book details the treatment of Allied servicewomen, female civilians, and local women by the Japanese occupation forces, including the massacres of nurses (such as that at Alexandra Hospital, Singapore), disturbing atroc...

    $229.00