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 condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned.

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.