Eaten by the Japanese

by Crasta, John Baptist; Crasta, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781480034051
• ISBN10: 1480034053
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-12
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Summary

"Eaten by the Japanese" is the inspiring story of John Baptist Crasta, an Indian soldier in the British Indian Army, who miraculously survives 3 1/2 years of inhuman imprisonment by his Japanese captors and bombardment during World War II. Rescued by Australians, he returns home to India and writes this memoir in 1946. He then waits another 51 years before it is read and published by his son, who by then is an author living in the United States. In the process of reading and publishing the book, the son rediscovers his father.To begin with one of the rave reviews: "What emerges in Crasta's survivor's tale is not a mere story of self but an epic of collective agony. This is the story, then, of a nation's agony as well as a man's, a man's survival as well as that of a nation's, in both cases to await the next chapter in a complex narrative."