The Write Stuff - Lee Geok Boi

English
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2005002660
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Synopsis :

Introduction by 938 Live interviewer to Lee Geok Boi, the author of 'The Syonan Years, Singapore Under Japanese Rule 1942-45'; Geok Boi is asked what her reason was for writing the book and how her research work was conducted. This cd focuses on life in Singapore after the Japanese surrender; round up of Prisoners of war (POWs), attitude of locals to POWs; discourse on Changi Prison and Stanley Warren, a POW who painted the murals found there; living conditions of POWs, how they spent their time, how locals slipped them food. (Part 2 of record accession no. 2006000517)