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The men of the line : stories of the Thai-Burma railway survivors
- Title
- The men of the line : stories of the Thai-Burma railway survivors / Pattie Wright.
- Author
- Wright, Pattie.
- Publication
- Carlton, Vic., Australia : Miegunyah Press, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | D804.J3 W75 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiii, 302 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 23 x 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The extraordinary engineering feat of the Thai-Burma Railway, or the Line as it is often called, was built with a slave labour force. A mixture of Australian, Asian, British, Dutch and American men built 688 bridges-eight made of steel and concrete-viaducts, cuttings, embankments and kilometres and kilometres of railway track through thick malarial jungle. The men of the Line died of starvation, torture and disease at the hands of the Japanese Imperial Army-here are their stories."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Miegunyah volumes ; 2nd ser., no. 99
- Uniform Title
- Miegunyah Press series ; 2nd ser., no. 99.
- Subject
- Burma-Siam Railroad
- Burma-Siam Railroad
- 1939-1945
- Geschichte 1942-1943
- World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Japan
- World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Burma
- World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Thailand
- Prisoners of war > Japan
- Atrocities
- Prisoners of war
- Eisenbahnbau
- Kriegsgefangener
- Burma
- Japan
- Thailand
- Birma
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives
- Personal narratives.
- Récits personnels.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-297).
- Contents
- Lest We Forget -- Nakom Patom / Snowy Youens -- Ban Pong / Cyril Gilbert -- Rukke / Neville Merrigan -- Tamuang / George Shelly -- Kanchanaburi / Don Doddy -- Kanchanaburi Number 4 / Harold Ramsay -- Kanchanaburi Number 7 -- Asian Labour / Patrick Francis Murphy -- Tamarkan / Max Smith -- Chungkai / Fred Ransome-Smith -- Wan Yi / Maxwell Robinson -- Tarsau / Arch Flanagan -- Tarsau South / Bill Powell -- Tarsau North / George Shelly -- Tonchan / Denys Peek -- Tonchan Spring / David Smith -- Tampi / Charles Edwards -- Konyu River / Ray Parkin -- Konyu 2 / Jim Kerr -- Konyu 3 / Pros Reid -- Hintok Mountain / Blue Butterworth -- Hintok Road / Tom Uren -- Hintok River / Koop Purse.
- ISBN
- 9780522854831
- 0522854834
- LCCN
- 2008399291
- OCLC
- ocn179842477
- 179842477
- SCSB-1488993
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library