The Stragglers
The Stragglers

Author: Charles Smith

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1615661123

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Armed with M1 rifles, bayonets, and a few hand grenades, young soldiers from different units, operating without command, come together as The Stragglers. Take a journey into the trenches in this fascinating true story of a group of misplaced soldiers fighting courageously as other American troops withdrew from the city of Chinju, South Korea. Charles C. Smith recalls the story of his seventeen-year-old self, the lone survivor from a battle that took place more than fifty years ago. A rag-tag group of soldiers solidifies as The Stragglers. As lives are lost, honor and courage are upheld.

The Stragglers
The Stragglers

Author: E. J. Kahn Jr.

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1787200973

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This book, first published in 1962, recounts all known cases of holdouts, or stragglers, from the Imperial Japanese army on islands in the Pacific following the end of World War II. With their empire defeated, this book is a gripping account told from the survivors’ perspective, detailing the stragglers’ struggle for survival as they turned to theft, pillage—and even cannibalism.

Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75
Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75

Author: Beatrice Trefalt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1134383436

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This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after it had ended. It explores their return to Japan and their impact on the Japanese people, revealing changing attitudes to war veterans and war casualties' families, as well as the ambivalence of memories of the war.