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Author Ham, Paul.

Title Sandakan : the untold story of the Sandakan Death Marches / Paul Ham
Published North Sydney, N.S.W. : William Heinemann, 2012

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 W'PONDS  940.547252 Ham/Stu  AVAILABLE
Description 656 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents Part 1 : before -- Singapore lost -- The boat -- British North Borneo -- No. 1 Prisoner of War Camp -- Officers and men -- Part 2 : the camp -- First escapes -- The commandant -- The drome -- Flesh and bone -- The cage -- Part 3 : resistance -- The radio -- The underground -- The Berhala Eight -- Guerillas -- Arrivals -- Betrayal -- The Kempei-Tai -- Mountain revolt -- Kuching -- Execution -- Rescue? -- Part 4 : they march -- New Year 1945 -- The first march -- White porters -- The guards -- An example -- Self-sacrificed -- Rescue? -- The second march -- Two -- The chaplain -- The last jungle camp -- Three -- One -- Mati Mati -- The last -- Crucified -- Part 5 : revelation -- Surrender -- Relics -- The trials -- The people -- Home -- Appendices -- Honour roll of Australian and British soldiers who died at Sandakan or on the Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches -- List of sentences in the trials of the Sandakan Underground -- List of Borneo natives who helped prisoners
Summary The story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2700 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp some eight miles inland of Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo
Analysis Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-637) and index
Subject Sandakan (Concentration camp) -- History.
Sandakan (Concentration camp)
Concentration camps -- Malaysia -- Sandakan (Sabah) -- History.
Concentration camps -- Malaysia -- Sandakan -- History
Prisoners of war -- Great Britain.
Prisoners of war -- Australia.
Prisoners of war -- Malaysia -- Sandakan (Sabah)
Prisoners of war -- Malaysia -- Sandakan
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
ISBN 9781864711400 (hbk.)