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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Roland, Charles G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2001.
Series:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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