ISBN10: 9622099106, ISBN13: 9789622099104, [publisher: Hong Kong University Press] Softcover First Edition Book condition is near fine. Soft cover. First edition . No dust jack. Front and back cover clean. Text body clean. Book block clean except top has very very minor light stain. Beside that excellent copy. Anyone with an interest in the Second World War in the Far East is familiar with military and Prisoner-of-War narratives. But how the 130,000 British, Dutch and American cilivians men, women and children captured and interned by the Japanese in the Far East during the same period survived their internment is less well-known. How did they the colonial people react to the sudden humiliation of surrender? How did they adapt to three and half years in Japanese camps in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies? This book addresses these questions. Bernice Archer's comparative study of the experiences of the Western civilians interned by the Japanese in mixed family camps and sexually segregated camps in the Far East combines a wide variety of conversational and unconventional source material. This includes contemporary War, Foreign and Colonial Office Papers, Diaries, Letters, camp newspapers and artefacts and post-war medical, engineering and educational reports, biographies , autobiographies, memoirs and over fifty oral interviews with ex-internees . The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941 - 1945 also cove ...

ISBN10: 9622099106, ISBN13: 9789622099104, [publisher: Hong Kong University Press] Softcover Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.95
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