Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience: The Changi Prisoner of War Camp in Singapore, 1942-45

Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience: The Changi Prisoner of War Camp in Singapore, 1942-45

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-216

  Havers, R P W ^a  

^a Royal Military Academy Sandhurst   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203423011     Document Type: Book

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