| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-403) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Hong Kong before 8 December 1941 -- 2. Eighteen-day war : 8-25 December 1941 -- 3. 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. Overseas drafts -- 8. POW camps in the Japanese Home Islands -- 9. Less than perfect soldiers -- 10. 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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World War (1939-1945) |
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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 -- Health and hygiene. |
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Japan. |
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Prisoners of war -- China -- Hong Kong.
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Prisoners of war. |
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China -- Hong Kong. |
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Prisoners of war -- Japan.
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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. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Roland, Charles G. Long night's journey into day. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2001 0889203628 (OCoLC)46909854 |
| ISBN |
0889209421 (electronic book) |
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9780889209428 (electronic book) |
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1280943173 |
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9781280943171 |
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0889203628 |
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9780889203624 |
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