Sandakan: A Conspiracy of Silence by Lynette Ramsay Silver

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Sunning to top and right foredges. Body text and binding are still very good.

It is August 1945, and WWII is over. Japan has surrendered.

As the Western world rejoices, deep in the jungles of British North Borneo, Australian and British prisoners of war (POWs) are massacred. Of the 2434 prisoners incarcerated by the Japanese forces at Sandakan POW camp, only six, all escapees, survived.

Lynette Ramsay Silver, through research and interviews with survivors, as well as a study of Japanese records, has pieced together a detailed and highly readable account of the lives and ultimate fate of Sandakan POWs.It is the tale not only of the prisoners but also of why their story became a secret. (back cover)