Behind Bamboo (Australian War Classics) - Softcover

Rivett, Rohan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140149252 ISBN 13: 9780140149258

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

First published in 1946, this is the story of life in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and working on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. The author captures the spirit of men who found courage, loyalty and even optimism in the midst of the horror and deprivation of the grimmest of conditions.

About this title

Product Description:

400 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. There Is No Doubt About The Suffering Endured, Yet This Powerful Story Is Filled With Australian's Will To Survive And Their Unassailabe Spirit In The Face Of The Most Callous Compelling Reading.

About the Author:

Rohan Rivett (1917--1977) studied at the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford before joining the Argus newspaper in 1939 as a journalist. He was a war correspondent in Singapore when it fell to the Japanese in 1942, and survived as a prisoner-of-war for more than three years. Rivett returned to journalism after the war and later became a director of News Limited and a director of the International Press Institute, Zurich. He published several non-fiction books and a biography of his father.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140149252
• ISBN 13: 9780140149258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416