No Mercy, No Leniency: Communist Mistreatment of British & Allied Prisoners of War in Korea

by Cyril Cunningham

Overview

This is the most authoritative and comprehensive British account ever published of the brutal North Korean and Chinese mistreatment of British POWs during the Korean War.The author, a psychologist, was a Scientific Advisor to the POW Intelligence Organisation during the Korean War.He explains in detail how many prisonors were bribed, starved, flogged and tortured into informing on their compatriots and infiltrated into every prisoner group to sniff out potentional "progressives and reactionaries".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473816794
Publisher:	Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date:	01/31/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	170
File size:	8 MB

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Preface xi

Glossary of P.O.W. Camps Names and Numbers xvi

Map of Korea showing the main P.O.W. camps xviii

1 Introduction 1

2 Stalinism vs Maoism: Russian, North Korean and Chinese P.O.W. Policies 8

3 Death on the March 17

4 The Kangdong Caves & the Peace Fighters of Pyongyang: Camps 9 & 12 29

5 The Kanggye Experiment: Camp 10 48

6 Peace in Pyoktong: Camp 5 54

7 Spring Evacuation 76

8 The Simmering Pot: Camp 1 and Camp 2 (2) 83

9 The Carne-Brown Plot: Camp 2 (1) [Officers] 106

10 Indoctrination, Propaganda & 'Brainwashing' 118

11 Camp Security & Interrogation 136

12 The Aftermath 155

Appendix A Chinese Questionnaire: An Outline of Autobiography 164