"Unit 731 Testimony: Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program" by Hal Gold delves into the horrifying history of Unit 731, Japan's research into chemical and biological warfare conducted on live humans during World War II. is divided into two parts, with the first half providing a historical overview of Unit 731 and the biography of Ishii Shiro, the key figure behind the Japanese biowarfare movement. The second half consists of firsthand testimonies from individuals who were involved in Unit 731, shedding light on the atrocities committed and the mentality of those responsible.
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The book includes high content warnings due to graphic descriptions of human experimentation, violence, and torture of human subjects during wartime.
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This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in Japan during WWII.
In the first part of Unit 731: Testimony, author Hal Gold draws upon a painstakingly accumulated reservoir of sources to construct a portrait of the Imperial Japanese Army's most notorious medical unit, giving an overview of its history and detailing its most shocking activities. The second half of the book consists almost entirely of the words of former unit members themselves, taken from remarks they made at a traveling Unit 731 exhibition held around Japan in 1994-95.
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