Long Night's Journey Into Day: Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945
- ISBN-10
- 0889203628
- ISBN-13
- 9780889203624
- Series
- Long Night's Journey into Day
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 421
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-05-22
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
- Authors
- Charles G. Roland, Jason a Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine Charles G Roland
Description
Based largely upon interviews with former POWs, Roland (emeritus, history of medicine, McMaster U., Hamilton, Ontario) describes the starvation, disease, and forced labor experienced by Allied POWs in World War II. The focus is on 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. Coverage also includes American POWs in the Philippines and British and Australian POWs in Singapore. c. Book News Inc.
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