| Entry Text: | SIBLEY, Peter. The Behar Massacre: The Execution of 69 Survivors from the British Merchant Ship Behar in 1944 by the Imperial Japanese Navy. 118p., illus. Stockport: A. Lane, 1997. ISBN: 1897666136.
The documents discovered by the author are reprinted with a linking text to reveal a brutal episode late in the war when the cruiser Tone killed its prisoners 10 days after the sinking of the ship. The incident led to a war crimes trial. |
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