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Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Pisoners of War |
Author: Forbes, Cameron:
Description: Macmillan 2005 2005 Publishers original black cloth with white lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to top and base of spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, now protected in Brodart. Black endpapers, no inscriptions. 559pp including index, plus 16pp b/w photographs, pages clean and bright in firm binding. Hellfire tells the epic stories of the 22,000 Australian prisoners taken prisoner by the Japanese. It charts the long history of racial tension between Australia and Japan, and the forces that shaped each country before the descent into war. Beyond the clash of nations it intimately explores both bravery in battle and the different courage required to survive years of harshness and hard labour. Hellfire details the individual stories of those caught up in history: the Hudson bomber pilot attacking the Japanese invasion force on Day One; the prisoner of war who refused to be blindfolded for his execution; the interpreter for the Japanese military police who turned the torturers' questions into English; the nurse surviving Sumatran prison camps; the man the atom bomb didn't kill in Nagasaki and whose home-coming helped change Australia. Hellfire was researched in Australia, Japan and across South-East Asia. It draws on 50 first-person interviews, ranging from former prisoners to an old Mon villager deep in the Burmese jungle, and from Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew to veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army. The result is a tour de force, a powerful and searing history of the prisoners of the Japanese.
Book Number: 0005987
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Price: $40.00 (AUD) |
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