Life on the Death Railway
The Memoirs of a British POW
As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived. Later in life, in graphic detail, he recorded the experience the dreadful conditions, the brutal treatment, the sickness and starvation, the merciless routine of forced labour. Yet he also recorded the comradeship among the prisoners, their compassion and strength, and the pastimes and entertainments that helped them to come through an ordeal that is hard to imagine today. First he was held at the notorious Changi camp in Singapore Island, then in the camps in Thailand that accommodated POWs who were forced to work on the Death Railway. Perhaps…
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Weitere Autoren: Young, Stuart / Pollard, Tony (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78346-993-2
- EAN: 9781783469932
- Produktnummer: 33489009
- Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'698 KB
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