From Shanghai To The Burma Railway

Author : Rory Laird
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 9781526771117
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Shanghai to the Burma Railway written by Rory Laird and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Laird's previously unpublished record of his wartime experience as a Japanese prisoner of war ranks among the most graphic of this shocking and deservedly popular genre.Captured after fighting in the Malayan Campaign he was incarcerated in Changi before being drafted as slave labour with 'F' Force on the notorious Burma Railway. He was one of only 400 out of 1600 to survive Songkurai No 2 Camp, despite disease and terrible hardship.His moving memoir begins with a rare description of ex-patriate life in 1930's Shanghai with the Sino-Japanese war raging around the European cantonments.An additional dimension to his story is the developing relationship between the author and Bobbie Coupar Patrick to whom he became engaged shortly before the fall of Singapore. Bobbie's letters graphically described her dramatic escape to Australia and work for Force 136. They were reunited in Colombo, Ceylon and their son has been instrumental in compiling this exceptional record.Three appendices round off this superb book including the official report on the hardships and losses suffered by 'F' Force.

Author : Rory Laird
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526771128
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Shanghai to the Burma Railway written by Rory Laird and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic record of one man’s experience in an infamous POW camp during World War II, and how he survived being forced to build the “Death Railway.” Captured after fighting in the Malayan Campaign, Richard Laird was incarcerated in Changi before being drafted as slave labor with “F” Force on the notorious Burma Railway. He was one of only 400 out of 1600 to survive Songkurai No. 2 Camp, despite disease and terrible hardship. His moving memoir begins with a rare description of ex-patriate life in 1930s Shanghai with the Sino-Japanese war raging around the European cantonments. An additional dimension to his story is the developing relationship between the author and Bobbie Coupar Patrick to whom he became engaged shortly before the fall of Singapore. Bobbie’s letters graphically described her dramatic escape to Australia and work for Force 136. They were reunited in Colombo, Ceylon and their son has been instrumental in compiling this exceptional record. Three appendices round off this superb book including the official report on the hardships and losses suffered by “F” Force. “A compelling story that deserves to be widely read.” —Firetrench

Author : Rory Laird
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526771144
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Shanghai to the Burma Railway written by Rory Laird and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Laird’s previously unpublished record of his wartime experience as a Japanese prisoner of war ranks among the most graphic of this shocking and deservedly popular genre. Captured after fighting in the Malayan Campaign he was incarcerated in Changi before being drafted as slave labour with ‘F’ Force on the notorious Burma Railway. He was one of only 400 out of 1600 to survive Songkurai No 2 Camp, despite disease and terrible hardship. His moving memoir begins with a rare description of ex-patriate life in 1930’s Shanghai with the Sino-Japanese war raging around the European cantonments. An additional dimension to his story is the developing relationship between the author and Bobbie Coupar Patrick to whom he became engaged shortly before the fall of Singapore. Bobbie’s letters graphically described her dramatic escape to Australia and work for Force 136. They were reunited in Colombo, Ceylon and their son has been instrumental in compiling this exceptional record. Three appendices round off this superb book including the official report on the hardships and losses suffered by ‘F’ Force.

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Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1399095633
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Officers on the Infamous Burma Railway written by and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944, a compilation of medical reports from the main prisoner of war work camps along the infamous Thailand-Burma railway was submitted to General Arimura Tsunemichi, commander of the Japanese Prisoner of War Administration. The authors stated that the reports were neither complaints nor protests, but merely statements of fact. The prisoners received only one reply – that all copies of the documents must be destroyed. As one officer later recalled, ‘Of course, this was not done’ and copies of these reports survived, stored away in dusty files, for future generations to learn the truth. Work on the railway began in June 1942, the Japanese using mainly forced civilian labour as well as some 12,000 British and Commonwealth PoWs. Such is well-known. So are the stories of ill-treatment and brutality, many of which have been published. The vast majority of these accounts, however, were written after the war, colored by the sufferings the men had endured. The reports presented here are quite unique, for they were written by the medical officers in the camps as the events they describe were unfolding before their eyes. The health and well-being of the PoWs was the medical officers’ primary concern, and these reports enable us to learn exactly how the men were treated, fed and cared for in unprecedented detail. There are no exaggerated tales or false memories here, merely facts, shocking and disturbing though they may be. We learn how the medical officers organised their hospitals and dealt with the terrible diseases, beatings and malnutrition the men endured. As the compilers of the reports state, 45 per cent of the men under their care died in the course of just twelve months. But equally, we find that the prisoners did have a voice and had the facilities, and the courage, to write and submit such reports to the Japanese, perhaps contradicting some of the long-held beliefs about conditions in the camps. Through the words of the Medical Officers themselves, some of the detail of what really happened on the Death Railway, for good or ill, is revealed here.

Author : Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415309561
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946: Documents, post-war accounts, maps, and photographs written by Paul H. Kratoska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 14 pages
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Download or read book Foreign Railway News written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jackie Sutherland
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399010298
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Behind the Wire written by Jackie Sutherland and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete account of the Jack and Elizabeth Ennis story—a WWII tale of love, danger, and internment in Japanese-occupied Singapore. From meeting in upcountry Malaya amid the rain forest and the orchids to their marriage in Singapore just days before it fell to the Japanese—and then through the long separation of internment—this is the story of Jack and Elizabeth Ennis’s World War II experience, told primarily through Jack’s diaries. Published here for the first time, the diaries record the daily struggles against disease, injuries, and malnutrition and also the support and camaraderie of friends and enjoyment of concerts, lectures, and sports, Ever observant, he also records details of wildlife. The inspiration for the ‘Changi Quilts,’ the story of the Girl Guide quilt (now in the Imperial War Museum) is told in Elizabeth’s words, written after the war. Elizabeth’s former employer, Robert Heatlie Scott, distinguished Far East diplomat, was also a POW in Changi, much of the time spent in solitary confinement or under interrogation by the Japanese. The individual experiences of these three are dramatic enough. Together they combine in an amazing story of courage, love, and lifelong friendship. Includes photographs

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Total Pages : 786 pages
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Download or read book The American Review of Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Shaw
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
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Download or read book American Monthly Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Shaw
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
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Download or read book The American Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: