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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Havers, Robin Paul Whittick (1967-....)
Titre(s) : Reassessing the Japanese prisoner of war experience [Texte imprimé] : the Changi POW camp, Singapore, 1942-5 / R. P. W. Havers
Publication : London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
Description matérielle : viii, 216 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm
Comprend : 1. Life at the Changi Prisoner of War Camp, Singapore, 1942-5 ; 2. 15 February 1942:
Surrender and Captivity ; 3. Initial POW Adjustments to Captivity: March-August 1942
; 4. The Selarang Barrack Square Incident ; 5. Changi: September 1942-September
1943 ; Part I. ; 6. Changi: September 1942-September 1943 ; Part II. ; 7. Return
from the Railway: September 1943-May 1944 ; 8. Changi Gaol: MAy 1944-September 1945
; 9. Conclusions: Bowed but not Broken
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-212) and index
Popular perceptions of life in Japanese prisoner of war camps are dominated by images
of emaciated figures, engaged in slave labour, and badly treated by their captors.
This book, based on extensive original research, shows that this view is quite wrong
in relation to the large camp at Changi, which was the main POW camp in Singapore.
It demonstrates that in Changi the Japanese afforded the captives a high degree of
autonomy, that this in turn resulted in a prison camp society that grew and flourished,
in contrast to other Japanese POW camps, and that it fostered an independent and combative
spirit, and high morale
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Prisonniers et prisons des Japonais
Prisonniers de guerre -- Singapour -- 1900-1945
Changi (Singapour ; camp de prisonniers)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0700716572 (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780700716579 (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42789965v
Notice n° :
FRBNF42789965
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