Download or read book The Stragglers written by E. J. Kahn Jr. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.