The Cowra Breakout was one of the largest documented cases of mass suicide in human history. In this battle, almost a thousand Japanese prisoners of war flung themselves at their guards, attacking machine guns with sharpened steak knives and baseball bats. It was a massacre. This is the historical atlas of that battle.
References
Japanese prisoners of war in revolt : the outbreaks at Featherston and Cowra during World War II by Charlotte Carr-Gregg (1978).
Break-Out! – The Japanese POW Break-Out at Cowra, 1944 by Hugh V. Clarke
The Cowra Breakout by Mat McLachlan
The night of a thousand suicides: The Japanese outbreak at Cowra by Teruhiko Asada (1972)
Dead Men Rising by Seaforth Mackenzie [aka. Kenneth Mackenzie]
Die like carp! By Harry Gordon (1981)
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