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Title: |
Strangers on the Praia |
| Sub-title: |
A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao |
Search Result:
| By (author): |
Paul French |
| ISBN10-13: |
9887963895 : 9789887963899 |
| Illustrations: |
illus. & maps |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
184x111mm |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Weight: |
.106 Kg. |
| Published: |
Blacksmith Books - June 2020 |
| List Price: |
7.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
True stories: discovery / historical / scientific : European history : Military history : Refugees & political asylum |
| Based on true stories and new research, Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek a possible route to freedom via the Portuguese colony of Macao the Casablanca of the Orient. The delicately balanced neutral enclave became their wartime home, amid Nazi and Japanese spies, escaped Allied prisoners from Hong Kong, and displaced Chinese. Strangers on the Praia relates the story of one young womans struggle for freedom that would ultimately prove an act of brave resistance. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Table of Contents: Introduction – An “Oriental Casablanca”. Strangers on the Praia: Chapter 1 – Macao: A Route to Freedom? Chapter 2 – On From Shanghai. Chapter 3 – There is no way out of Macao. Chapter 4 – Free China. Macao and World War Two – A Timeline. Further Reading: - On Macao. - On Kwangchowan. - On Jewish Shanghai in World War Two. Acknowledgments
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