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1 online resource |
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THE SUMATRA RAILROAD; THE SUMATRA RAILROAD; Copyright; Contents; Rudy Kousbroek; Research has revealed new facts; Preface to the fifth revised Dutch edition andthe first English edition; Introduction; The forgotten drama; CHAPTER I The road to oblivion; CHAPTER II Railway through the mud; CHAPTER III Beatings and starch; CHAPTER IV Maggots with sambal; CHAPTER V The shadow of death; CHAPTER VI Slaving in the gorge; CHAPTER VII The golden spike; CHAPTER VIII Waiting for freedom; CHAPTER IX Silent witnesses; A word of thanks; Note from the translator; Notes; Bibliography; War Memoirs |
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ChronologyAbbreviations; Nomenclature; Index of personal names; List of illustrations; About the author |
| Summary |
This is the gripping historical tragedy of the 220 km railroad that bored its way through the hot, humid Sumatran jungle during World War II. The railway was commissioned by Japan and built with the blood and tears of Allied prisoners of war and press-ganged Javanese romushas. Henk Hovinga interviewed nearly one hundred former railroad workers and did painstaking archival research. The result is a moving book, richly illustrated with numerous authentic drawings of life in the internment camps, charts and photographs |
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Print version record |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Transportation.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Indonesia -- Sumatra
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Atrocities
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Transportation
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Indonesia -- Sumatra
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1299784089 |
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9781299784086 |
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