Behind bamboo: An inside story of the Japanese prison camps (Seal books) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0851795773 ISBN 13: 9780851795775

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

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

• ISBN 10: 0851795773
• ISBN 13: 9780851795775
• Binding: Paperback