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Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow´s Memoir and Letters from Home
Hilary Custance Green
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Description for Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow´s Memoir and Letters from Home
Hardback. A superb example of the ever popular and moving Japanese POW/Death Railway genre. Num Pages: 288 pages, 90 black and white plates. BIC Classification: 1FMB; 1FPJ; 3JJH; BM; HBJF; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 762.
The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labour by their Japanese masters on the 'Burma Railway' have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not to be horrified and moved by their stoic courage in the face of inhuman brutality, appalling hardship and ever-present death. While Barry Custance Baker was enduring his 1000 days of captivity, his young wife Phyllis was attempting to correspond with him and the families of Barry's unit. Fortunately these moving letters have been preserved and appear, edited by their daughter Hilary, in this book along with Barry's ... Read more
The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labour by their Japanese masters on the 'Burma Railway' have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not to be horrified and moved by their stoic courage in the face of inhuman brutality, appalling hardship and ever-present death. While Barry Custance Baker was enduring his 1000 days of captivity, his young wife Phyllis was attempting to correspond with him and the families of Barry's unit. Fortunately these moving letters have been preserved and appear, edited by their daughter Hilary, in this book along with Barry's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
762g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473870000
SKU
V9781473870000
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-2
About Hilary Custance Green
Hilary Custance Green has BAs in Fine Arts (UEA) and Sculpture (St Martin's School of Art) and spent twenty years sculpting. In 1993 she graduated with an Open University BSc in Psychology and spent fifteen years working in brain science, gaining a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Cambridge in 1999. She has had three novels published and has spent six ... Read more
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