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Author Forbes, Cameron.

Title Hellfire : the story of Australia, Japan and the prisoners of war / Cameron Forbes
Published Sydney : Pan MacMillan Australia, 2005

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 W'PONDS  940.547252 For/Hts  AVAILABLE
Description 559 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
regular print
Summary For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By lamplight, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone to make way for a railway. Among these men were some of the 22,000 Australian soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. Their experiences became a defining feature of the war
Analysis Australian Defence Force
World War 2
Prisoners of war
Japan
Forced labour
History, 1901-1945
Thailand
Burma
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography : pages 532-538
Subject Burma-Siam Railroad.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Thailand. 111 119 127 129 131
Prisoners of war -- Australia.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Thailand.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Burma.
Prisoners of war -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Prisoners of war -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
LC no. 2005391330
ISBN 1405036508 :