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Keep the men alive : Australian POW doctos in Japanese captivity / Rosalind Hearder.

Title
Keep the men alive : Australian POW doctos in Japanese captivity / Rosalind Hearder.
Author
Hearder, Rosalind
Publication
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2009.

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Description
297 p., [8]p. plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
During World War II, 22 000 Australian military personnel became prisoners of war under the Japanese military. Over three and a half years, 8000 died in captivity, in desperate conditions of forced labour, disease and starvation. Many of those who returned home after the war attributed their survival to the 106 Australian medical officers imprisoned alongside them. These doctors varied in age, background and experience, but they were united in their unfailing dedication to keeping as many of the men alive as possible. This is the story of those 106 doctors - their compassion, bravery and ingenuity - and their efforts in bringing back the 14 000 survivors.
Subject
  • 1939-1945
  • Geschichte 1942-1946
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Medical care > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
  • East Asia
  • Australia
  • Asia, Eastern
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-283) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Road to captivity -- Changi : the beginning -- Making bricks without straw : the Burma-Thai Railway -- Untold stories : the other camps -- Complex relationship : doctors and captors -- Doctor and officer -- Beyond the call : coping in captivity -- Long shadow : after the war
ISBN
9781741757385 (pbk)
LCCN
^^2009483745
OCLC
  • 429567684
  • SCSB-11310732
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library