Four Thousand Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home - Couverture rigide

Holmes, Linda Goetz

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1863735798 ISBN 13 : 9781863735797

Editeur : Allen & Unwin, 1994

Synopsis

This work tells how one prisoner of war prepared himself, mentally and physically, for his journey home after three and a half years of brutal captivity in Java, Burma and Thailand during World War II. Staff Sergeant Cecil Dickson was a member of the 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion, which was forced to surrender to the Japanese in March 1942. His engineering unit bore the heaviest work in constructing the Burma-Thailand railway. The author draws on Dickson's letters home to his wife, and on research and interviews with many surviving Pioneers, to paint a dramatic picture of prisoner-of-war life under the Japanese. Readers can discover what it felt like to emerge abruptly from one day's starvation to the next day's air-drops, and from being in regimented captivity to being in charge of one's own time again. Dickson's writings also provide a glimpse of one man's determination to free his mind from continued captivity by replacing bitter memories with the sights and sounds of post-war Bangkok, and with tender thoughts of reunion with loved ones.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Allen & Unwin
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1863735798
• ISBN 13: 9781863735797
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 204
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• Personne responsable: non disponible