Behind Bamboo by Rohan Rivett

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Foxing on endpages, half-title and title page. Minor marks and foxing to foredges. Borrower card pocket on inside back cover. Missing dust jacket. Body text and binding are still very good.

First published in 1946, this is a second edition dated 1954.

Behind Bamboo is unflinching in its honesty and haunting in its realism. It is a vivid, compelling testament to the Australians' will to survive and their unassailable spirit in the face of the most callous inhumanity.

The bestselling memoir of life as an Australian POW on the notorious Thai-Burma railway. Rohan Rivett was a journalist in Singapore when it fell to the Japanese in 1942. He escaped south, across the treacherous Bangka Strait to Indonesia but was soon captured and became just one of the thousands of POWs struggling for existence in a Japanese camp. The struggle was to last for more than three years. (back cover)

All profits from the sale of this book go to the Bunbury RSL.