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Long night's journey into day : prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945 /

Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity. Long Night's Journey into Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at Hong...

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Основен автор: Roland, Charles G.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ℗♭2001.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Long night's journey into day.
Съдържание:
  • 1.
  • Hong Kong before 8 December 1941
  • 2.
  • The eighteen-day war : 8-25 December 1941
  • 3.
  • The prisoner-of-war camps and hospitals
  • 4.
  • Prisoner-of-war life in Hong Kong
  • 5.
  • Trying to cope with too little food
  • 6.
  • In sickness, rarely in health : life and death in the camps and hospitals
  • 7.
  • The overseas drafts
  • 8.
  • POW camps in the Japanese Home Islands
  • 9.
  • Less than perfect soldiers
  • 10.
  • The journey ends : but it never does.