Sandakan The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches

Edité par William Heinemann/Random House Aust. Pty. Ltd., North Sydney NSW,, 2012

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First edition. Hardcover, octavo; gray boards with red gilt spine titling and dark red endpapers; 656pp., monochrome plates. Minor toning to text block edges and very slight wear to dustwrapper edges. Otherwise very good to near fine and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. After the Fall of Singapore in February 1942, 2,500 Australian and British prisoners were transported by the Japanese to the east coast of Northen Kalimantan (Borneo), to a jungle camp eight miles inland from Sandakan, and there worked, beaten and tortured almost to death. After the Japanese settlement at Sandakan was targeted by an Allied offensive, the Japanese loaded their prisoners with all of the equipment and force-marched them away from the conflict, a retreat which has become known as the Sandakan Death Marches. Of the 1,000 plus prisoners who commenced this trek, only six Australians survived to tell the tale. After the War, decades of silence and cover-ups by the Australian and British military powers - determined that revelations of the activities at Sandakan would only cause unnecessary grief and undermine post-War efforts at reconciliation - left a gaping hole in the battle map and the lives of those families whose loved ones had vanished without word. In this important book, Paul Ham lifts the lid on the hellhole that was Sandakan and brings the truth staggering into the light of day.…

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Titre
Sandakan The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches
Auteur
Ham, Paul
Éditeur
William Heinemann/Random House Aust. Pty. Ltd., North Sydney NSW,
Année de publication
2012

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