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On paths of ash : the extraordinary story of an Australian prisoner of war / Robert Holman ; edited by Peter Thomson.
- Title
- On paths of ash : the extraordinary story of an Australian prisoner of war / Robert Holman ; edited by Peter Thomson.
- Author
- Holman, Robert.
- Publication
- Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2009.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Thomson, Peter
- Description
- 301 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Robert and Jack Holman were working-class brothers who found themselves in three of the most horrific experiences of the war. They were interned in Changi, from where they became prison labourers on the infamous Burma Railway. From there they went as slaves to the coalmines near Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped.
- Subject
- Holman, Robert
- Holman, Jack
- Changi POW Camp (Changi, Singapore)
- Burma-Siam Railroad > History
- 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Australian
- World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Japan
- Prisoners of war > Australia > Biography
- Prisoners of war > Thailand > Biography
- Prisoners of war > Burma > Biography
- Prisoners of war > Japan > Biography
- Prisoners of war > Singapore > Changi
- Nagasaki-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Personal narratives – Australian
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-291) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781741962314 (pbk.)
- 1741962315 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 271872053
- SCSB-12124466
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library