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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roland, Charles G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2001.
Colección:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Temas:
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 > Medical care > Japan.
Prisoners of war > Health and hygiene > Japan.
Prisoners of war > China > Hong Kong.
Prisoners of war > Japan.
Prisoners of war.
World War, 1939-1945.
Military Medicine > history
Prisoners > history
Concentration Camps > history
History, 20th Century
World War II
Prisonniers de guerre > Japon.
Prisonniers de guerre.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Soins médicaux > Japon.
Prisonniers de guerre > Santé et hygiène > Japon.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Prisonniers et prisons des japonais.
Prisonniers de guerre > Chine > Hongkong.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
prisoners of war.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
Medical care.
Prisoners of war > Health and hygiene.
Hong Kong (China)
Japan
China > Hong Kong.
Japan.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxviii, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-403) and index.
ISBN:0889209421
9780889209428
1280943173
9781280943171
9786610943173
6610943176
155458776X
9781554587766

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