Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War by Cameron Forbes

Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War by Cameron Forbes

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781405036504
Author: Cameron Forbes
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2005
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 576 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has inscribed inside page. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

For months during 1943, there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone to make way for a railway. Among these men were some of the 22,000 Australian soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. In camps across Asia and the Pacific, they struggled, died, and survived with some help from their mates.

Hellfire was researched in Australia, Japan and across South-East Asia. It draws on 50 first-person interviews, ranging from former prisoners to an old Mon villager deep in the Burmese jungle and from Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew to veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army. The result is a tour de force, a powerful and searing history of the prisoners of the Japanese. (Trove)

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