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BL
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1034112
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b788482
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Roland, Charles G.
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| Title & Author
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Long night's journey into day : : prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945 /\ Charles G. Roland.
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| Publication Statement
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Waterloo, Ont. :: Wilfrid Laurier University Press,, ©2001.
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1 online resource (xxviii, 421 pages) :: illustrations, maps, portraits
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| ISBN
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0889209421
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: 1280943173
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: 155458776X
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: 6610943176
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: 9780889209428
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: 9781280943171
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: 9781554587766
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: 9786610943173
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0889203628
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9780889203624
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-403) and index.
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| Abstract
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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.
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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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World War, 1939-1945-- Medical care-- Japan.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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Concentration Camps-- history.
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History, 20th Century.
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Military Medicine-- history.
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Prisoners-- history.
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World War II.
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Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945-- Prisonniers et prisons des Japonais.
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Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945-- Soins médicaux-- Japon.
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Prisonniers de guerre-- Santé et hygiène-- Japon.
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Prisonniers de guerre-- Chine-- Hong Kong.
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Prisonniers de guerre-- Japon.
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HISTORY-- Military-- World War II.
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Medical care.
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Prisoners of war-- Health and hygiene.
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Prisoners of war.
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Hong Kong (China)
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Japan.
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China, Hong Kong.
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Japan.
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| Dewey Classification
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940.54/7252
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| LC Classification
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D805.H75R65 2001eb
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2005 C-435
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D 805.H75R744L 2001
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