LOST SOULS OF THE RIVER KWAI
Language: English
Published by Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2004
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- Hardcover
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- Title
- LOST SOULS OF THE RIVER KWAI
- Author
- Peeke, Mitch
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1844151271
- ISBN 13
- 9781844151271
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 pound
- Dimensions
- 24cm
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Reed's experiences over the next few years are graphically recounted. The overwhelming sense one gets is of senseless and often random violence, dished out by both the Japanese and Korean guards, with only a few unwilling to participate. Surprisingly the one figure who Reed eventually respected was one of his first camp commanders, executed after the war, but who Reed believes was trapped between his loyalty to the Army and the Emperor and his own religious beliefs.
Even the relatively light hearted sections, recounting the steps the prisoners took to relief their suffering often end in tragedy - perhaps most notably when two prisoners were shot dead after being caught attempting to break back into the camp after a fishing expedition.
The account of Reed's time as a Japanese prisoner is supported by a brief summary of his early wartime service, an account of the fighting in Malaya and Singapore and the immediate aftermath of the British surrender, while we finish with his repatriation at the end of the war, and a summary of his post-war life and the impact his wartime experiences still had on him. --History of War.org
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