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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 400 pages. no dj, cover wornRivett was a war correspondent as well as a prisoner of war on the Burma Siam Railway for 3 1/2 years. This was the first complete and accurate chronicle to tell of the experiences of the Australians at the hands of the Japanese in the p rison camps.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Illustrated with black and white plates and two maps. Colour frontispiece. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners with some marking to boards. Very faint scattered foxing to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 335 pages. Rohan Rivett's classic saga of life as a prisoner of war during the Second World War including the hell of his days on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Includes an Appendix 'P.O.W. Glossary'. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Book Condition: Good. Some mild foxing to title page and tanning to edges/ ends. No dust jacket. Some wear/marking to cover. Text inside clean and bright, no damage to interior. Good Reading Copy. 14 illustrations (Pencil Drawings and Colour Paintings) 2 Hand Drawn Maps by the author. Dedicated by Author to "THE MEN, AUSTRALIAN, BRITISH AND AMERICAN, who endured the Jaspanese captivity along the Burma - Siam railway and above all to the memory of those comrades who lie for ever in jungle graves THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED." First published in 1946, this is the story of life in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and working on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. The author captures the spirit of men who found courage, loyalty and even optimism in the midst of the horror and deprivation of the grimmest of conditions.…