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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Four Years in a Red Coat : The Loveday Internment Camp Diary of Miyakatsu Koike
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'This publication of an internee's personal diaries will expand our understanding of the civilian internment experience in Australia during World War II, through the words of a Japanese internee who spent four years behind the barbed wire at Loveday.

'The title of this book refers to the dyed red coats that were provided to Japanese and other internees in Australia.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2022 .
      image of person or book cover 5125909999396319704.jpg
      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 214p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published March 2022.
      ISBN: 9781743058961

Works about this Work

[Review] Four Years in a Red Coat Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 54 no. 1 2023; (p. 164-165)

— Review of Four Years in a Red Coat : The Loveday Internment Camp Diary of Miyakatsu Koike Miyakatsu Koike , Hiroko Cockerill (translator), 2022 single work diary

'This book tells an extraordinary story of war mobility during the tremendous demographic upheavals of World War II. Miyakatsu Koike, the author of the book, travelled from Surabaya in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) to Australia as a civilian internee, and this book is his firsthand account of his experience in two countries, Indonesia and Australia.' (Introduction)

Consolations André Dao , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2022;

— Review of Four Years in a Red Coat : The Loveday Internment Camp Diary of Miyakatsu Koike Miyakatsu Koike , Hiroko Cockerill (translator), 2022 single work diary
Consolations André Dao , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2022;

— Review of Four Years in a Red Coat : The Loveday Internment Camp Diary of Miyakatsu Koike Miyakatsu Koike , Hiroko Cockerill (translator), 2022 single work diary
[Review] Four Years in a Red Coat Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 54 no. 1 2023; (p. 164-165)

— Review of Four Years in a Red Coat : The Loveday Internment Camp Diary of Miyakatsu Koike Miyakatsu Koike , Hiroko Cockerill (translator), 2022 single work diary

'This book tells an extraordinary story of war mobility during the tremendous demographic upheavals of World War II. Miyakatsu Koike, the author of the book, travelled from Surabaya in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) to Australia as a civilian internee, and this book is his firsthand account of his experience in two countries, Indonesia and Australia.' (Introduction)

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