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...
Основен автор: | Roland, Charles G. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
℗♭2001.
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Print version::
Long night's journey into day. |
Съдържание:
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- Hong Kong before 8 December 1941
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- The eighteen-day war : 8-25 December 1941
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- The prisoner-of-war camps and hospitals
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- 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
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- The overseas drafts
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- POW camps in the Japanese Home Islands
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- Less than perfect soldiers
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- The journey ends : but it never does.