Prisoner of the turnip heads : horror, hunger and humour in Hong Kong, 1941-1945 / by George Wright-Nooth ; with Mark Adkin

Wright-Nooth, George

ISBN 10: 0850524156 / ISBN 13: 9780850524154

Edité par London : Leo Cooper, 1994

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xv, 272p,[16]p of plates. Subjects; Wright-Nooth, George 1917-. Stanley Civilian Internment Camp. World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. World War, 1939-1945 Hong Kong Personal narratives, British. Prisoners of war Great Britain ; Biography. Prisoners of war Hong Kong ; Biography. Prisoners of war China Hong Kong Biography. World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, British. 1 Kg.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Prisoner of the turnip heads : horror, hunger and humour in Hong Kong, 1941-1945 / by George Wright-Nooth ; with Mark Adkin
• Éditeur: London : Leo Cooper
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0850524156
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780850524154
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• Poids: 1 kilogramme

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Synopsis

Some of those who suffered at the hands of the Japanese during World War II and have subsequently written of their experiences are at pains to say they bear no grudge. George Wright-Nooth is not cast in that mould. He was a trainee Colonial Police officer studying for his Chinese-language exams when the Japanese invaded Hong Kong, and was to spend the next four years incarcerated in a prison camp. He kept a diary which remained undiscovered, and from which extracts form much of this first-hand account of suffering and brutality during the terrible years of the Japanese occupation.