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Autore |
Roland Charles G |
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Titolo |
Long night's journey into day [[electronic resource] ] : prisoners of war in the Far East, 1941-1945 / / Charles G. Roland |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-55458-776-X |
1-280-94317-3 |
9786610943173 |
0-88920-942-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (450 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Prisoners of war - Health and hygiene - Japan |
Prisoners of war - China - Hong Kong |
Prisoners of war - Japan |
World War, 1939-1945 - Medical care - Japan |
World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Illustrations and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Hong Kong Chronology; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 Kong in December 1941 and incarcerated in |
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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, beriber |
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