Railroad of Death
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (777 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1905802935 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 380 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Amazon Customer said Priveledge. A refreshing view of life on the job under the Japanese. This one written from the point of view of an officer - therefore priveledged. Amazing point of view - they didn't need to work! That was for the lower classes. Their oppressors didn't let them get away with it however, although overall their lives were not as bad as most.
Yet it is at the same time lyrical in its descriptions of the natural world surrounding the camps and the food and kindness shown by some Thais to the prisoners. Coast had to write the book all over again while on the voyage home. A new edition of the 1946 bestseller, the first and best account of forced labor on the Burma RailwayJohn Coast was a young British Army officer who was taken prisoner at the Fall of Singapore in February, 1942. His book is moving, dramatic, and chilling in the detail it gives of the cruelty inflicted by Japanese and Korean soldiers on the prisoners and Asian workers who died in even greater numbers working on the railway. He took notes and concealed them from the Japanese for nearly three years, but lost them when he was forced to bury them to avoid repeated searche
"a harrowing account." —The New York Times