PRISONERS OF THE TURNIP HEADS: Horror, Hunger and Heroics, Hong Kong, 1941-1945

Wright-Nooth, George

ISBN 10: 0850524156 / ISBN 13: 9780850524154

Published by Leo Cooper, 2008

About this Item

hardback book in near fine condition,dust jacket is very good to near fine.

Seller Inventory # 35590

Bibliographic Details

• Title: PRISONERS OF THE TURNIP HEADS: Horror, Hunger and Heroics, Hong Kong, 1941-1945
• Publisher: Leo Cooper
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850524156
• ISBN 13: 9780850524154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • HORROR
  • military and war
  • social history

About this title

Synopsis

Some of those who suffered at the hands of the Japanese during World War II and have subsequently written of their experiences are at pains to say they bear no grudge. George Wright-Nooth is not cast in that mould. He was a trainee Colonial Police officer studying for his Chinese-language exams when the Japanese invaded Hong Kong, and was to spend the next four years incarcerated in a prison camp. He kept a diary which remained undiscovered, and from which extracts form much of this first-hand account of suffering and brutality during the terrible years of the Japanese occupation.

About the Author

Major Mark Adkin was commissioned into The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment in 1956 and served with it and The Royal Anglian Regiment in Germany, Malaya, Mauritius and Aden. On leaving the British Army he joined the Overseas Civil Service and was posted to the Solomon Islands. Transferred to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, he was one of the last British District Officers anywhere in the world. His final overseas post was as a contract officer for five years with the Barbados Defence Force, and it was as the Caribbean operations staff officer that he participated in the US invasion of Grenada in 1983. He now lives in Bedford.