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Sto caricando le informazioni... Prisoner of the Turnip Heads: The Fall of Hong Kong and the Imprisionment by the Japanesedi George Wright-Nooth
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a frank account of the internment of British civilians and soldiers following the capture of Hong Kong by the Japanese in 1941. Wright-Nooth's role wasn't particularly heroic, and he was no particular fan of the British establishment in Hong Kong. But he tells his story with a passion, a debt to those who died. That passion sustains the story, which even with the best efforts of Mark Adkin his co-author, is dry and disjointed at times. It must also be said that this history pulls no punches. Wright-Nooth names those who he believed be cowards and traitors amongst his fellow internees, and relates with satisfaction the fate of many of the Japanese who were later tried and executed. But not all is black and white in this history, and for that this can truly be said to be one of the most honest accounts of captivity from WW2. Recommended if you have an interest in the war, or in Hong Kong. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
As a police officer in pre-war colonial Hong Kong, George Wright-Nooth was studying for his Chinese language exams when the Japanese invaded on Christmas Day, 1941. He spent the next four years incarcerated in the Japanese Military Internment Camp at Stanley. Daily life became marked by hunger and appalling suffering at the hands of the guards. He regularly witnessed death and torture, and his account of a multiple execution by sword is as moving and horrific as anything one is ever likely to read. While many of his fellow prisoners cracked beneath the terror of such atrocities, the author repaid such treatment with subversive activities, such as the running of secret radios, and the smuggling of food and messages to and from some of those held by the dreaded Japanese Gendarmerie. Perhaps most remarkably of all, the author kept a diary throughout his incarceration which, miraculously, was never discovered by his captors. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)940.547252History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War II Prisoners of war; medical and social services Prisioner-of-War CampsClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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