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The
following is a list of books which we found useful in preparing this website -
it is by no means comprehensive, but it's a good start.
The
Railway Man by Eric Lomax
Published
by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1996 ISBN 0 09 958231 7
For those
who seek to understand the trauma of POWs maltreated by the Japanese written by
one who was eventually reconciled with one of his torturers
Banzai you
Bastards by Jack Edwards
Published
by Corporate Communications, 704 East Town Building, 41 Lockhart Road, Wanchai,
Hong Kong. ISBN 962-7290-03-3
A moving
account by the author of the Malaya Campaign from a soldier who fought in it,
his capture at Singapore and subsequent shipment to Formosa (Taiwan) where he was
forced to work in the infamous Kinkaseki mine for 3½ years.
Behind
Bamboo by Rohan D Rivett
Published
by Angus & Robertson 1946
The Naked Island by Russell Braddon
Published by Penguin Books, 1993 ISBN 0-14-014975-9
Spice
Island Slaves by Leslie J Audus
Published
by Alma Publishers, Richmond Surrey, 1996 ISBN 0951 7497 2 2
The
extreme hardship of those who worked on the far flung islands under Japanese
occupation suffering from, disease, malnutrition and brutality.
Nurses at
War by Penny Starns
Published
by Sutton Publishing Ltd. Stroud Gloucestershire 2000 Chapter 7 ISBN 0 7509
2387 3
The Fall
of Singapore by Frank Owen
Published
by Michael Joseph Ltd. Pan Books, 1960
A detailed
account of the Malaya Campaign and the Fall of Singapore
Eyewitnesses of War - Sixty Accounts of Dutch Victims subjected to Japanese
terror 1942-1945
Oggetuigen van Oorlog - Zestig Verhaalen van Nederlandse Slachtoffers over
Japanse Terreur 1942-1945
Published by Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts (Stichting Japanse
Ereschulden) Zoutmanstraat 23X, 2518GL, Den Haag,The Netherlands
e-mail stichtingjes@jesinfo.org
A wide ranging collection of reports
describing how Dutch military and civilian personnel were treated by the
Japanese
Als
Krijsgevangene naar de Molukken en Flores, van JHW Veenstra et al
Published
Martinus Nijhoff, ‘s Gravenhage 1982
Sandakan – a Conspiracy of Silence by Lynette Ramsay Silver
Published
by Sally Milner Publishing Pty Ltd., Burra Creek, NSW, Australia ISBN 1 86351
223 3
A detailed analysis of
the events leading to the death of 641 British and 1787 Australian servicemen at
Sandakan – Ranau in British North Borneo. Only six, all escapees, survived.
Surviving the Sword - Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far
East, 1942-1945 by Brian MacArthur
Published by Random House, New York 2005, ISBN 1-4000-6413-9
A panoramic view of Japanese treatment of POWs - a must
read
In the
Line of Duty – a soldier remembers by Lt Gen (retd) Harbaksh Singh
Published
by Lancer Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2000, ISBN 81 7062 106 2
Autobiography of a senior Indian Army officer. His captivity by the Japanese in
Malaya as an officer is recorded in chapters 10-20.
Horror in
the East by Laurence Rees
Published
BBC Worldwide Ltd, London , 2001 ISBN 0 563 53426 5
My Life
with the Samurai by Anthony Cowling
Published
by Kangaroo Press ISBN 0 86417 812 3
Unsung
Heroes of the Royal Air Force by Les & Pam Stubbs
Published
by Barny Books, Grantham 2002 ISBN 1 903172 21 7
A
painstaking collection of all RAF personnel taken by the Japanese as POWs, where
they were taken, where they were used, and where they died.
Changi- The Lost Years TPM Lewis
Priest in
Prison Canon John Hayter
Prisoners
of the Samurai – Japanese Civilian Camps in China 1941-1945 by Norman Cliff
Published
by Courtyard Publishers 1998 ISBN 0 9533295 0 X
Yangchow Years by Grace Harvey
Published
by Dreamstar Books 2003
History of
the Second World War – The War against Japan Vol. V by Maj Gen S Woodburn Kirby
et al.
Published
by HMSO 1969
Prisoners
of the Japanese by Gavan Daws
Published
by Robson Books 1995 ISBN 0 86051 978 3
A detailed
description of the POW experience, predominantly through US and Australian eyes,
but Chapter IX Ever After is a must
When You Go Home by
Alan Lane
Published by A Lane
Publications 1993 ISBN 1 897666 00 4
To the Kwai - and Back War
Drawings 1939-1945 by Ronald Searle
Published by W Collins Sons & Co Ltd
1986 ISBN 0 00 217436 7
The Colonel of Tamarkan by Julie Summers
Published by Simon and Schuster 2005
A Guest of Nippon by Eddie Hunn
ISBN 1 897666 73 X
The Churches of the Captivity in Malaya by Rev. J N Lewis Bryan MA
Published by The London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1946
and other books:
Scorpion on the Ceiling: A Scottish Colonial Family in South East Asia by
Roddy Martine
Published by Librario Publishing Ltd 2005 ISBN 1
90444056 8
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