Chapter 1 - Before the Battle
Chapter 2 - My War
Chapter 3 - Prisoner in Hong Kong
Chapter 4 - No Geishas or Cherry Blossoms
Chapter 5 - Fears, Hopes and Freedom
Chapter 6 - Another World
Chapter 7 - Epilogue
Appendices: - Excerpts from War-Crime Trials
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CANADIAN CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA: Cambon, Kenneth, 1923- Guest of Hirohito
ISBN 0-9694983-0-6 1. Cambon, Kenneth, 1923- 2. World War, l939-1945—Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 3. World War, l939-1945—Personal narratives, Canadian. 4. Prisoners of war—Canada—Biography. 5. Prisoners of war—Japan—Biography. I. Title. D805.J3C34 1990 940.54’7252’092 C90-091 751-2
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