One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A Memoir of Life and Death on the Burma-Thailand Railway by Ian Denys Peek

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good to near fine condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Slight wear to to tail spine, now protected by book tape. Inscribed by author.

Memoirs of Denys Peek, an Australian prisoner-of-war after the fall of Singapore in World War II.

His story tells of his capture and transportation to Thailand as part of the prisoner labour force for the Burma-Thailand railway and the three years of hardship that followed as a slave labourer.

Written in the present tense, the author relates his experiences moving from camp to camp and his stubborn refusal to die.

Includes author's note with a glossary of foreign words and maps.