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Synopsis
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 Siam - 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.
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Review
"'One of the great epics of our time'" (SUN HERALD)
"'A triumph of memory and passion'" (WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN)
"'Peek has forged a diamond out of the terrible degradation of the past'" (MELBOURNE AGE)
"'Written in the present tense, like a loose-limbed diary, his account of what he saw and suffered...is touching, vivid, angry and utterly compelling. It is also exceptionally well written'" (SUNDAY TIMES)
"'This is a horrifying and extraordinary book...When a few years ago the Emperor of Japan visited London,a number of old men who had been Jap POWs lined The Mall and then turned their backs on him and the state procession. There was some criticism of their action. It was, some people said, time to let bygones be bygones, time to forget. The former POWs couldn't. Anyone who reads this book will understand why'" (Allan Massie, Literary Review)
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A powerful memoir of life and death as a POW working on the Burma-Thailand Railway.
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- PublisherBantam
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0553816578
- ISBN 13 9780553816570
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages688
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