The Stragglers

E. J. Kahn Jr.

Aug 2016 · Pickle Partners Publishing

About this ebook

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.

About the author

Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr. (December 4, 1916 - May 28, 1994) was an American writer under the by-line E. J. Kahn, Jr. with The New Yorker for five decades. He graduation from Harvard University with a B.A. in 1937 and joined The New Yorker as a staff writer that same year, contributing reports from Australia, New Guinea, Panama, Germany, Russia, Japan, Korea and Alaska. His long career with the magazine resulted in numerous books on such varied subjects as Coca Cola, Leslie McNair, the Trust Territory of the Pacific, Harvard University, Herbert Bayard Swope, Frank Sinatra, Dwayne O. Andreas of Archer Daniels Midland, and the Postal Inspection Service. Kahn taught writing at Columbia University from 1974 to 1977. He passed away at the age of 77 in 1994.