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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good (Used copy). AUSTRALIAN MILITARY World War II -pp. 400 #251026Australian War Classics series presented by E. E. (Weary) Dunlop(Name crossed out on prelim)  Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

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. 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.…

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.…

Hard. First published in 1946, Behind Bamboo is one of the earliest, most powerful, and historically significant first-hand accounts of Japanese prisoner-of-war camps written in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. The author, Rohan D. Rivett, was a prominent Australian journalist and news broadcaster who was captured in Java in March 1942 while attempting to escape following the fall of Singapore. Rivett spent three and a half years as a captive, enduring forced labor under brutal conditions in Java, Burma, Siam (Thailand), and Japan. Written largely on scraps of paper hidden from guards during his imprisonment and completed immediately upon his liberation, the book delivers an unvarnished, intensely raw record of the Allied POW experience in Southeast Asia. The narrative provides an extraordinary, eyewitness account of the construction of the infamous Burma-Thailand Railway (the "Death Railway"), detailing the staggering human toll, relentless tropical diseases, malnutrition, and systemic brutality inflicted upon the slave labor force. Yet, beyond the catalog of suffering, Rivett places equal emphasis on the profound camaraderie, ingenuity, and psychological resilience of the prisoners. He meticulously documents the makeshift medical miracles performed by Australian military surgeons like Weary Dunlop, the underground news-gathering networks fueled by illicit radios, and the quiet acts of sabotage that sustained morale. A landmark work in Australian war literature that went through dozens of printings, Behind Bamboo remains a cornerstone primary text for military historians, scholars of the Pacific War, and collectors of Australiana and Southeast Asian wartime history. Colour fontis piece, unmarked text block with very slight toning of the rear endpaper. Dustjacket is in poor condition with majour tears and pieces missing. Australia.…