Long night's journey into day: prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945
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1. Verfasser: Roland, Charles G. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press ©2001
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-403) and index
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
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 Kong in December 1941 and incarcerated in camps in Hong Kong and the Japanese Home Islands. Experiences of American POWs in the Philippines, and British and Australians POWs in Singapore, are interwoven throughout the book. Starvation and diseases such as diphtheria, beriberi, dysentery, and tuberc
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ISBN:0889203628
0889209421
1280943173
9780889203624
9780889209428
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