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Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity. Long Night's Journey into Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at Hong Kong in December 1941 and incarcerated in camps in Hong Kong and the Japanese Home Islands. Experiences of American POWs in the Philippines, and British and Australians POWs in Singapore, are interwoven throughout the book. Starvation and diseases such as diphtheria, beriber

Prisonniers de guerre --- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 --- Prisoners of war --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Exchange of prisoners of war --- POWs (Prisoners of war) --- War prisoners --- Prisoners --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Sante et hygiene --- Soins medicaux --- Prisonniers et prisons des Japonais. --- Health and hygiene --- Medical care --- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.