Surviving the death railway : a PoW's memoir and letters from home
Baker, Barry Custance2016
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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 graphic memoir written after the war.
Main title:
Surviving the death railway : a PoW's memoir and letters from home / edited by Hilary Custance Green.
Author:
Baker, Barry Custance, authorGreen, Hilary Custance, editor
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2016.
Collation:
xiv, 257 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781473870000 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5472591092940.5472940.5940.547
LC class:
D805.B9
Language:
English
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BRN:
1536594
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