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The Burma-Thailand Railway: Memory and History |
Author: McCormack, Gavan; Nelson, Hank:
ISBN: 1863734236
Description: Allen & Unwin 1993 1993 Usual library marks and wear. 175 pages with b/w illustrations. Between November 1942 and October 1943 a force of about 60,000 prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army, together with an even greater number of locally conscripted labourers, was mobilised to construct a railway from Kanchanaburi in Thailand to Thanbuyzayat in Burma. Many died in the construction process, including 12,000 POW's (2800 of them Australian). They died from overwork, beatings, exhaustion, malnutrition and disease. Ex-Library
Book Number: 006589
Keywords: BURMA-SIAM RAILROAD PRISONERS OF WAR AUSTRALIA
Price: $15.00 (AUD) |
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