Nardell (2 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. xiii, 112 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm. The building of the Burma Railway has been exhaustively documented and famously filmed. Ronald Searle, who briefly flits across these pages, produced unforgettable images of the horrendous privations of those involved in its construction and, ironically, it is now a tourist attraction. After more than half a century, Sydney Nardell here movingly describes his involvement in the notorious project, dispassionately and, amazingly, without rancour. An early high-flyer, he was a surgeon in Singapore when it unexpectedly fell to the Japanese and he was interrogated in the infamous Changi Jail. What he witnessed there was nothing to what he and his colleagues endured when transported to Burma. As a surgeon in a casualty clearing station near the frontiers of Malaya and Thailand, the author experienced every facet of human behaviour at its worst and its most sublime. For every gratuitous act of bestiality he recounts a redeeming act of bravery or common decency, and not all the enemy are tarred with the brush of evil.…