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“In Defeat—Defiance.” The Java POWs and a Work of Art and Resistance
29
May
2020
By FRANK WILLIAMS and MEG PARKES
A chapel in Java built by Allied POWs included national symbols, in which Winston Churchill was surreptitiously added under the noses of Japanese guards.
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