![]() In addition, I have read enough stories of WWII to know that the Japanese were often quite inhumane to their captives, so the attitudes in the writing are understandable. I can well remember the view of my family towards Japanese in years after WWII. The language used to refer to Japanese was troublesome to my modern sensibilities, but realistic for the time. But the Japanese officers were mostly shown in a very negative light, with more sympathy for the enlisted men who were accompanying the women on their treks. I loved the book, as a story, and did not think the aborigines were portrayed as poorly treated. And actually, I did not think too much about it myself, simply because I grew up in that era and recall how people spoke of minorities and particularly of the Japanese. ![]() ![]() I read it as a reflection of how a Brit of the immediate post-WWII period would write and think. ![]()
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