Shantung Compound

Informationen zum Autor Langdon Gilkey was a young American teacher at Yenching University near Peking, China, when the Japanese military under wartime pressure rounded up all foreigners into an internment camp. Two and a half years later they were released. Shantung Compound is based on a journal Dr. Gilkey kept during his imprisonment. Klappentext This vivid diary of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II examines the moral challenges encountered in conditions of confinement and deprivation. Zusammenfassung This vivid diary of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II examines the moral challenges encountered in conditions of confinement and deprivation.

Product details

• Authors: Langdon Gilkey, Gilkey Langdon
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.06.1975
• EAN: 9780060631123
• ISBN: 978-0-06-063112-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Military / General, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, Political oppression and persecution, HISTORY: Social History, HISTORY: Military / World War II, RELIGION: Christianity / History, PSYCHOLOGY: Social Psychology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Military, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Violence in Society, RELIGION: Ethics, RELIGION: Faith, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, RELIGION: Christian Education / General