Maritime Region
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  A Second Year in JavaFrom: Bamboo Cage |
This section of the diary describes Wyse’s second year in a Janaese prison camp. He begins to experience problems with his eyes; sometimes there is a month between entries. Wyse was … | Jonathan F. Vance | 32 | 2009 | $3.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Atlantic ProvincesFrom: Canada's Main Street |
In this chapter, Baird traces the arduous construction of the Trans-Canada Highway through the Atlantic Provinces between 1949 and the early 1960s. | Craig Baird | 23 | 2025 | $2.30 Add |
Bamboo CageThe P.O.W. Diary of Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943 |
In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed … | Jonathan F. Vance | 147 | 2009 | View |
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From ConclusionFrom: Bamboo Cage |
The conclusion notes that Wyse buried his diary for fear of being discovered. He spent the rest of the war on Java, and was able to retrieve his diary and type up the manuscript. | Jonathan F. Vance | 4 | 2009 | $0.40 Add |
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From Darmo CampFrom: Bamboo Cage |
This part of the diary covers Wyse’s time at Darmo Camp, which was purported to have better sanitary conditions. Wyse believed that the English officers were not treating the Japanese … | Jonathan F. Vance | 24 | 2009 | $2.40 Add |
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From Into BattleFrom: Bamboo Cage |
In the introduction, Vance provides background on the journal’s author, Robert Wise, a flight controller in the Royal Air Force. | Jonathan F. Vance | 8 | 2009 | $0.80 Add |
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From Lyceum Camp, SoerabajaFrom: Bamboo Cage |
This section of the diary details Wyse’s time at the Lyceum Camp in Soerabaja, on the island of Java. Here he found little solidarity among the prisoners; food was always in short supply, … | Jonathan F. Vance | 30 | 2009 | $3.00 Add |
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From Malang Prison CampFrom: Bamboo Cage |
This section of the diary covers Wyse’s time in Malang Prison Camp, where the prisoners were mistreated and abused by their captors, and suffered from malnutrition and disease. | Jonathan F. Vance | 24 | 2009 | $2.40 Add |
