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Author Gittins, Jean.

Title Stanley : behind barbed wire / Jean Gittins
Published [Hong Kong] : Hong Kong University Press, ©1982

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 164 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword; Preface; Prologue; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Epilogue
Summary This is a story of one courageous woman's fight against the vicissitudes, brutality and starvation that faced civilians incarcerated in the infamous Stanley prison, by the Japanese, in Hong Kong during World War II.The story she tells is absolutely fascinating providing, as it does, an essential fragment of Hong Kong's social history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Gittins, Jean.
Gittins, Jean
Gittins, Jean
Stanley Civilian Internment Camp.
Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Hongkong -- Stanley-Gefängnis.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Chinese
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Prisoners of war -- China -- Hong Kong -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Prisoners of war
Erlebnisbericht
Geschichte (1941-1945)
Hong Kong (China) -- Biography
China -- Hong Kong
Genre/Form Biographies
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789882202825
9882202829
Other Titles Behind barbed wire