Surviving a Japanese internment camp
Subtitle: life and liberation at Santo Tomás, Manila, in World War II
By: Rupert Wilkinson
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780786465705
Subjects: Prisoners of war; British Personal narratives; Santo Tomas Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines); World War, 1939-1945; Biography; Japanese Prisoners and prisons
Description: " Interned as a small boy with his mother and older sister, the author shows the many ways in which Manila's Santo Tomás prison camp internees handled imprisonment--and their liberation afterwards. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: War clouds over Eden; title: Internment; title: A porous prison; title: Dorms, shanties, and sex; title: "Cheer up! everything's going to be lousy"; title: Child's play; title: Power: the Japanese; title: Power: the internees; title: Hunger; title: Threat vs. Hope; title: "They're here!"; title: Aftermath; title: Significance.