Long night's journey into day
Subtitle: prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945
By: Charles G. Roland
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Waterloo, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese; World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- Japan; Prisoners of war -- Health and hygiene -- Japan; Prisoners of war -- China -- Hong Kong; Prisoners of war -- Japan
Description: "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 Australian POWs in Singapore, are interwoven throughout the book.".

"Based largely on hundreds of interviews with former POWs, as well as material culled from archives around the world, Professor Roland details the extremes the prisoners endured - from having to eat fattened maggots in order to live to choosing starvation by trading away their skimpy rations for cigarettes."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index