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Stanley : behind barbed wire / Jean Gittins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gittins, Jean.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gittins, Jean.
- Stanley Civilian Internment Camp.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Chinese.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
- Prisoners of war--China--Hong Kong--Biography.
- Prisoners of war.
- Hong Kong (China)--Biography.
- Hong Kong (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 p.)
- Other Title:
- Behind barbed wire.
- Place of Publication:
- [Hong Kong] : Hong Kong University Press, c1982.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a story of one courageous woman's fight against the vicissitudes, brutality and starvation that faced civilians incarcerated in the infamous Stanley prison, by the Japanese, in Hong Kong during World War II.The story she tells is absolutely fascinating providing, as it does, an essential fragment of Hong Kong's social history.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface; Prologue; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Epilogue
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-70712-4
- 9786612707124
- 988-220-282-9
- OCLC:
- 654124527
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