| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-403) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- Japan
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Prisoners of war -- Health and hygiene -- Japan
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Prisoners of war -- China -- Hong Kong
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Prisoners of war -- Japan
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Prisoners of war.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Military Medicine -- history
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Prisoners -- history
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Concentration Camps -- history
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History, 20th Century
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World War II
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prisoners of war.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Medical care
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Prisoners of war
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Prisoners of war -- Health and hygiene
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Prisonniers de guerre -- Hong Kong (Chine)
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Prisonniers de guerre -- Japon.
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Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Prisonniers et prisons -- Japon.
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| SUBJECT |
Hong Kong (China) |
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Japan |
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China -- Hong Kong
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0889209421 |
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9780889209428 |
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1280943173 |
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9781280943171 |
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9786610943173 |
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6610943176 |
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155458776X |
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9781554587766 |
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