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Notes

  • Author's note: The Samurai were the military retainers of the daimios (barons) under the old feudal system in Japan. The name is now used to denote members of a military caste, or army officers in Japan.
  • Dedication: Dedicated to My Comrades - who still live and will live even though they are not alive.
  • During the years he spent in POW camps in Changi, Formosa (Taiwan) and Manchuria, Kent Hughes wrote this long narrative poem of 31 cantos, on odd scraps of concealed paper.

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Four Records of War Vera Wellings , 1947 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , April vol. 1 no. 10 1947; (p. 448-49)
— Review of Slaves of the Samurai : An Australian Odyssey, Which Gives an Account of the Life and Thoughts of a Slave of the Samurai, during His Three Years and Seven Months as a Prisoner of War in the Hands of the Japanese Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes , 1946 single work poetry ; Twice Their Prisoners Walter Irvine Summons , 1946 single work autobiography ; Pacific Sunset Graeme McCabe , 1946 single work autobiography ; Darwin Drama Owen Griffiths , 1947 single work autobiography
Four Records of War Vera Wellings , 1947 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , April vol. 1 no. 10 1947; (p. 448-49)
— Review of Slaves of the Samurai : An Australian Odyssey, Which Gives an Account of the Life and Thoughts of a Slave of the Samurai, during His Three Years and Seven Months as a Prisoner of War in the Hands of the Japanese Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes , 1946 single work poetry ; Twice Their Prisoners Walter Irvine Summons , 1946 single work autobiography ; Pacific Sunset Graeme McCabe , 1946 single work autobiography ; Darwin Drama Owen Griffiths , 1947 single work autobiography
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