SANDAKAN: the untold story of the Sandakan death marches.
Pp. [xvi]+656, 16 plates, 2 maps (one double page), appendices (including honour rolls), references, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; grey boards, spine lettered in red; dust wrapper; William Heinemann Australia, Sydney, 2012. First edition. *The three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war. 'After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2500 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp some eight miles inland of Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo. For decades after the Second World War, the Australian and British governments would refuse to divulge the truth of what happened there, for fear of traumatising the families of the victims' [wrapper blurb]. Item #180635
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