'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.
'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)
'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)
