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ISBN 13 : 9780415309523
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946 written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul H. Kratoska
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946: POW labour : allied prisoners of war on the railway written by Paul H. Kratoska and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415309561
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
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:
Author : Paul H. Kratoska
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ISBN 13 : 9780415309509
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Thailand-Burma Railways written by Paul H. Kratoska and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Robert Charles
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1616737603
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Last Man Out written by H. Robert Charles and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Marine recounts his ordeal as a World War II POW forced by the Japanese to build the railway immortalized in The Bridge on the River Kwai. From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Charles, who describes the ordeal in vivid and harrowing detail in Last Man Out. The story mixes the unimaginable brutality of the camps with the inspiring courage of the men, such as a Dutch Colonial Army doctor whose skill and knowledge of the medicinal value of wild jungle herbs saved the lives of hundreds of his fellow POWs, including the author. Praise for Last Man Out “A remarkable story, long overdue, of the treatment of POW’s captured by Japan.” —Arthur L. Maher, USN, Senior officer to survive sinking of the USS Houston, POW of the Japanese in World War II “In World War II, to move materials and troops from Japan to Burma by avoiding the perilous sea route around the Malay Peninsula, the Japanese military built a railroad through the jungles of Thailand and Burma at great human cost to its prisoner laborers. Last Man Out is an effective addition to the history of this tragedy.” —Library Journal
Author : Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415309516
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946: Voluntary accounts written by Paul H. Kratoska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1399095633
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
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 : Robert Sherman La Forte
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842024280
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (242 download)
Download or read book Building the Death Railway written by Robert Sherman La Forte and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generosity amid the greatest cruelty, Building the Death Railway gives the American perspective on events that shocked the world.
Author : Leslie G. Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780864177865
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (778 download)
Download or read book The Blue Haze written by Leslie G. Hall and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of POW's on the Burma Railway as told by one of the survivors.
Author : Tilak Raj Sareen
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788178353494
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Building the Siam-Burma Railway During World War-II written by Tilak Raj Sareen and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No subject created so much controversy during and after the Pacific war as the Japanese treatment of the Allied Prisoners of War (P.O.W.) in flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention. Whether it was due to the racial war carried out by the Japanese or was the outcome of the mistaken value of Bushido the question has never been resolved. The harsh and brutal treatment of the P.O.W. was fully demonstrated, when the Japanese decided to utilize them for the construction of Siam-Burma railway. Driven like slaves and with semi-starvation diet, the Allied P.O.W. were left with no stamina to fight tropical diseases. As a result thousands of them died while working on Siam-Burma Railway, which came to be known as Railroad of Death . A fuctional account of the sufferings of the Allied P.O.W. was made famous by Hollywood few years back in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this book the Author has reproduced the original reports to presents the factual details. It is hoped that these reports will be usefull for the students studying the Japanese policy during the Second World War.
Author : Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415309554
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946: War crimes written by Paul H. Kratoska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Robert Charles
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780760328200
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Last Man Out written by H. Robert Charles and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai." One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Charles, who describes the ordeal in vivid and harrowing detail in Last Man Out. The story mixes the unimaginable brutality of the camps with the inspiring courage of the men, including a Dutch Colonial Army doctor whose skill and knowledge of the medicinal value of wild jungle herbs saved the lives of hundreds of his fellow POWs, including the author.
Author : Kelly E. Crager
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585446353
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Hell under the Rising Sun written by Kelly E. Crager and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. Many of them had grown up together in Jacksboro, Texas, and almost all of them were eager to face any challenge. Just over a year later, these carefree young Texans would be confronted by horrors they could never have imagined. The battalion was en route to bolster the Allied defense of the Philippines when they received news of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Soon, they found themselves ashore on Java, with orders to assist the Dutch, British, and Australian defense of the island against imminent Japanese invasion. When war came to Java in March 1942, the Japanese forces overwhelmed the numerically inferior Allied defenders in little more than a week. For more than three years, the Texans, along with the sailors and marines who survived the sinking of the USS Houston, were prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army. Beginning in late 1942, these prisoners-of-war were shipped to Burma to accelerate completion of the Burma-Thailand railway. These men labored alongside other Allied prisoners and Asian conscript laborers to build more than 260 miles of railroad for their Japanese taskmasters. They suffered abscessed wounds, near-starvation, daily beatings, and debilitating disease, and 89 of the original 534 Texans taken prisoner died in the infested, malarial jungles. The survivors received a hero’s welcome from Gov. Coke Stevenson, who declared October 29, 1945, as “Lost Battalion Day” when they finally returned to Texas. Kelly E. Crager consulted official documentary sources of the National Archives and the U.S. Army and mined the personal memoirs and oral history interviews of the “Lost Battalion” members. He focuses on the treatment the men received in their captivity and surmises that a main factor in the battalion’s comparatively high survival rate (84 percent of the 2nd Battalion) was the comraderie of the Texans and their commitment to care for each other. This narrative is grueling, yet ultimately inspiring. Hell under the Rising Sun will be a valuable addition to the collections of World War II historians and interested general readers alike.
Author : Geoffrey V. Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910837092
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Burma Railway Medicine written by Geoffrey V. Gill and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Death Railway' was very well named. More correctly called the Burma or Thai-Burma Railway, it was a major project during Allied Far East imprisonment under the Japanese. Over 60,000 prisoners worked on its construction, the majority of whom were British, and some 20 per cent died before release in 1945. Working conditions were appalling, the climate inhospitable, and food supplies grossly inadequate, making the POWs terribly vulnerable to a plethora of tropical infections and syndromes of malnutrition. No medical care was given by their Japanese captors, and it fell to the Allied POW doctors and medical orderlies to treat the sick, which they did with little in the way of medical equipment or drugs.
Author : James Bradley
Publisher : Timothy Bradley
ISBN 13 : 9780959018707
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Towards the Setting Sun written by James Bradley and published by Timothy Bradley. This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oralee Andrino
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Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Death Railway written by Oralee Andrino and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allied POWs experienced inhumane treatment and endured torture by Japanese forces. Not only were the long days of the POWs filled with harsh labor and punctuated by physical abuse but also the prisoners were provided with grossly inadequate food. The daily food allotment typically included small portions of boiled rice and spoiled meat or fish; rations were routinely contaminated with rat droppings and infested with maggots. In addition, there was a lack of potable water. Consequently, the prisoners were malnourished, dehydrated, and predisposed to illness. These factors, compounded by the unsanitary conditions in the work camps and the tropical environment, meant that disease was rampant. Dysentery and diarrhea were responsible for more than one-third of all deaths on the railway. Other diseases included cholera, malaria, and tropical ulcers. For anyone seeking information on the daily life of an ordinary British soldier as a POW of the Japanese in WW2, working on the Burma-Siam railway this is the right place for you
Author : K. Tamayama
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023028826X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Railwaymen in the War written by K. Tamayama and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese railway soldiers, who built the notorious Burma-Thailand railway in 1942-43, earned an unenviable reputation for brutality, but they have not hitherto told their own story. This is the first book to bring to light the testimonies of the soldiers of the Emperor, who worked with 55,200 British, Australian and Dutch prisoners of war in the construction of the 415 kilometre railway.
