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

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

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780889203624
ISBN: 0889203628
ISBN: 9786610943173
ISBN: 9781280943171
ISBN: 9780889209428
ISBN: 6610943176
ISBN: 1280943173
ISBN: 0889209421
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
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Computer data.
Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, �2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:august.19 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-403) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	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 Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:	English.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.