HONG KONG INTERNMENT, 1942-1945
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ISBN：
9789622098800
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定價：
HK$ 250.00
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作者：
Geoffrey Charles Emerson
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語言：
英文
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出版社：
Hong Kong University Press
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分類：
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出版日期：
2008-03-01
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發行日期：
2008-03-17
"First researched in the early 1970s when memories were still fresh, Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945 offers numerous valuable insights into the camp's internal administration, politics and personalities, as well as fascinating glimpses of day-to-day life as a civilian internee." -- Jason Wordie, author of Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island
• Tells the story of the more than three thousand non-Chinese civilians: British, American, Dutch and others, who were trapped in Hong Kong and interned behind barbed wire in Stanley Internment Camp from 1942 to 1945.
• Draws on the interviews with the former internees done by the author from 1970 to 1972, with a new introduction and fresh discussions.
• With 94 illustrations including precious photographs and sketches that depict the life in the Stanley Camp.
Geoffrey Charles Emerson was president of the Hong Kong History Society and is presently a council member of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong Branch
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