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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 175 pages. Between November 1942 and October 1943 a force of about 60,000 prisoners of t he Imperial Japanese Army, together with an even greater number of locally consc ripted labourers, was mobilized to construct a railway from Kanchanaburi in Thai land to Thanbuyzayat in Burma. Many died in the construction process, including 12,000 POWs (2,800 of them Australian). They died from overwork, beatings, exhau stion and disease - the result of their taskmasters' cruelty. Survivors have car ried the physical and psychological scars ever since. The crimes committed in or der to build the railway need to be understood. In this book some of the Austral ian survivors, and distinguished Japanese and Australian historians, attempt to come to a real understanding of what happened on the railway and why. Contributo rs include Tom Uren, Hugh V. Clarke and Sir Edward (Weary) Dunlop.…

Softcover, 16*24 cm. Zustand: Gut. 175 Seiten guter Zustand, Ecken leicht bestoßen 200429956 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 300.