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The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946
The construction of the railway between Thailand and Burma in the Second World War using forced labour and prisoners of war has been the subject of numerous memoirs, novels and the famous Hollywood film The Bridge over the River Kwai. Yet documentation and primary sources offering an account of the railway from a Japanese, Allied, POW and post-war perspective are scarce. This six-volume collection uses documents from archives in Australia, Great Britain, India, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the United States, Myanmar, Thailand and Japan to present a complete picture of the reality of the 'death' railway.
Last Man Out
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.
One Fourteenth of an Elephant
In February 1942, Singapore fell to the Japanese and Denys Peek was among the tens of thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers and citizens taken prisoner. Eight months later, he and countless other PoWs were packed into steel goods wagons and transported by rail to Slam - their destination the massive construction project that would become infamous as the Burma Thailand Railway. He would spend the next three years in over 15 different work and 'hospital' camps on the railway, stubbornly refusing to give up in a place where over 20,000 prisoners of war (an innumerable slave labourers) met their deaths. Written with clarity, passion and a remarkable eye for detail, Denys Peek's memoir recalls not just the hardships and horrors of the railway, the daily struggle for survival, but also the comradeship, spirit and humour of the men who worked on it. It stands as a haunting, evocative and deeply moving testimony to the suffering of those who lived and died there - a salutary reminder of man's potential for inhumanity to his fellow man.
The Burma-Thailand Railway
Paperback edition of a history of the Burma-Thailand railway, first published in hardback in April 1993, which presents an overview of the experience from a variety of perspectives - the prisoners of war, the Asian labour force, the Japanese engineer regiments, and supporting administration. Includes references and an index. The contributors include ex-POWs Tom Uren and the late Sir Edward ('Weary') Dunlop, a Korean guard once sentenced to death as a war criminal and a Japanese historian specialising in the history of Japan's relationship with Asia. The editors are respectively professor of Japanese history and a senior fellow in the Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU. McCormack's other publications include 'The Japanese Trajectory' and Nelson is the author of 'Prisoners of War: Australians under Nippon'.
Railroad to Burma
A 25 year old Australian, James Boyle, was one of thousands of prisoners of war who worked in inhuman conditions to build the Thailand/Burma railway. He was determined to record his experiences, and those of his mates, at the limits of human endurance.
The Burma-Siam Railway
The Study Relates To The Notorious Burma-Siam Railway On Which Japanese Employed Thousands Of Allied Prisoners Of War. It Presents A Diary Kept By A Medical Officer Who Was A Prisoner Which Shows The Houses Of Captivity.
