9781863512237 - Sandakan: A Conspiracy of Silence von Silver, Lynette Ramsay (5 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Sandakan A Conspiracy of Silence By Lynette Ramsay Silver. Publisher: Sally Milner Publishing, 1998, 2nd edition. Good softback, some creasing, no inscriptions, minor marks. The story of the Sandakan prisoner of war camp during the closing years of World War II. Of the 1793 Australian and 641 British servicemen held in the North Borneo camp and its surrounds, only six Australians survived. The Australians and British in the camp were mostly those captured by the Japanese during the fall of Singapore. The book details their last days of freedom in Singapore, their captivity, transfer to North Borneo and the appalling conditions in the camp, where they were forced to labour, day and day out, while being provided with little food. The Allies were aware of the location of these prisoners and the conditions under which they were suffering. A plan was put together towards the end of the war to rescue them, as it was known that the Japanese were eliminating prisoners of war as they were forced to retreat. The rescue attempt was bungled through incompetence. Almost all of the men died because of mistakes and stupidity in the senior ranks of the services back in Australia. More than 1000 could have been saved. The records were hidden so that the mistake would not be revealed.

Softcover. Zustand: Wie neu. (ISB-No. 1863512233) new, unread. The conspiracy is not a Japanese one. But what the Japanese army did in WWII is also not what should have happened. Examines the systematic Japanese massacre of Allied POWs at Sandakan POW Camp, and a bungled Allied rescue attempt. Of 2434 prisoners incarcerated by the Japanese at the Sandakan POW camp, only six, all escapees, have survived. Account of the lives and ultimate fate of Sandakan's POWs and of the incompetence behind the failed rescue attempt planned in 1944 but cancelled in April 1945 in the belief that the camp had been evacuated. Written by the (then) official historian of the 8th Division Association and based on interviews with survivors and Japanese records. In stock, sofort lieferbar.