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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Interlude; Chapter I We say welcome to sunny Singapore; Chapter II We'll never get off the island; Chapter III The Orient Express to Ban Pong; Chapter IV The long march; Chapter V Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, and off to work we go; Chapter VI The river of no return; Chapter VII I'm dreaming of a white Christmas; Chapter VIII Pennies from heaven; Chapter IX A slow boat to Burma; Chapter X The golden nail; Chapter XI On the road to Kanburi; Chapter XII Mac the knife; Chapter XIII Teahouse of the Third Moon; Chapter XIV Strangers in paradise |
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Chapter XV The Changi RitzChapter XVI Confucius -- he say; Chapter XVII Oh Joseph, Joseph, won't you make your mind up; Chapter XVIII It's been a long, long time; Chapter XIX Epilogue; Appendix Death Under the Rising Sun; Glossary; Acknowledgements; About the Artists |
| Summary |
Taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore in 1942, Arthur Godman spent the next three and a half years on the Burma-Siam railway, living in camps along the River Kwai. Like other PoWs, he experienced disease and malnutrition and witnessed the painful deaths of many of his comrades. Yet somehow he retained his sense of humour and perspective, recalling, among the casual cruelties inflicted by the Japanese, small acts of kindness between guards and prisoners which enabled him to retain his faith in humanity. In order to survive he attempted to achieve a relationship with his captors based |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 16, 2019) |
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Godman, Arthur.
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Godman, Arthur |
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Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Prisoners of war -- Biography
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Prisoners of war
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Searle, Ronald, illustrator
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Meninsky, Philip, illustrator
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| ISBN |
9780750953115 |
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075095311X |
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