By Bernice Archer
Bernice Archer's comparative learn of the reports of the Western civilians interned by means of the japanese in combined relations camps and sexually segregated camps within the a long way East, combines a wide selection of traditional and unconventional resource fabric. This comprises modern warfare, overseas and Colonial place of work papers, diaries, letters, camp newspapers and artefacts, post-war clinical, engineering and academic reviews, biographies, autobiographies, memoirs and over fifty oral interviews with ex-internees. utilizing modern own bills, the surprise of the japanese victories and the devastating event of seize are highlighted. This booklet additionally covers wider concerns corresponding to the position of girls in battle, gender and struggle, young ones and struggle, colonial tradition, oral heritage, and conflict and reminiscence.
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