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Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese, 1942-45

Door Brian MacArthur

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#391038-XP2
Titel	Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese, 1942-45
Auteur	MacArthur, Brian
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Abacus
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0349119376
ISBN13	9780349119373
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, numerous illustrations (mostly photographs) in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Many of the prisoners held by the Japanese during the WWII were so scarred by their experiences that they could not discuss them even with their families. They believed that their brutal treatment was, literally, incomprehensible. But some prisoners were determined that posterity should know how they were starved and beaten, marched almost to death or transported on 'hellships', used as slave labour - most notoriously on the Burma-Thailand railway - and how thousands died from tropical diseases. They risked torture or execution to draw and write diaries that they hid wherever they could, sometimes burying them in the graves of lost comrades. The diaries tell of inhumanity and degradation, but there are also inspirational stories of courage, comradeship and compassion. When men have unwilli... (Lees verder)ngly plumbed the depths of human misery, said one prisoner, the artist Ronald Searle, they form a silent understanding of what solidarity, friendship and kindness to others can mean. The diaries and interviews with surviving prisoners drawn on in SURVIVING THE SWORD will tell a new generation about that solidarity, friendship and kindness.
Pagina's	494
Conditie	Goed — Name and year on title page; creases in spine.
Prijs	€ 8,50

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