| Descript |
1 online resource (xxviii, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Series |
CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-403) and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
English. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
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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Hong Kong (China)
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Japan
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prisoners of war. |
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II. |
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Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01013753 |
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Prisoners of war. (OCoLC)fst01077227 |
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Prisoners of war -- Health and hygiene. (OCoLC)fst01077237 |
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China -- Hong Kong. (OCoLC)fst01260796 |
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Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082 |
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924 |
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1939-1945 |
| ISBN |
0889209421 (electronic bk.) |
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9780889209428 (electronic bk.) |
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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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0889203628 |
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9780889203624 |
| Music # |
402678 CaOOCEL |
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