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  • Prisoner of Japan

    A Personal War Diary - Singapore, Siam & Burma 1941-1945

    by Sir Harold Atcherly ...
    In the latter part of WW2, more than a ... million European and American soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese in Malaysia. They went on to suffer deprivation and brutality, most of them failing to survive. I was fortunate enough to be one of the survivors. During my time as a prisoner I kept a diary, which I was able to bring home with me. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Forgotten Highlander

    An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific

    by Alistair Urquhart ...
    Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious “Death Railway” and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work on a Japanese “hellship,” his ship was torpedoed, and nearly everyone on board the ship died. Not Urquhart ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 1000 Days on the River Kwai

    The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

    by Cary Owtram ...
    A British officer recounts his harrowing years as a POW in Thailand, including his time as the camp commandant, in this WWII memoir.Colonel Cary Owtram served with the 137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and the 11th Indian Infantry Division in Malaysia. After being captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he was transported to the infamous Burma railway. He went on to spend the next three and a ... Read more

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  • On Paths of Ash

    by Robert Holman ...
    On Paths of Ash is an extraordinary Australian World War II story. Robert and Jack Holman were working-class brothers who found themselves in three of the most horrific experiences of the war. They were interned in Changi prisoner-of-war camp, from where they became prison labourers on the infamous Burma Railway. From there they went as slaves to the coalmines of Japan, close enough to Nagasaki to ... Read more

    $11.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sandakan

    The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches

    by Paul Ham ...
    The untold story of the Sandakan death marches of World War II.After the fall of Singapore, in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors rounded up tens of thousands of British and Australian soldiers and shipped them to prison camps scattered throughout Hirohito’s newly won Empire.The fall of Britain’s ‘impregnable fortress’ was the greatest humiliation in British military history, for which ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

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  • Gentleman Jim

    The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS & Special Forces

    by Lorna Almonds-Windmill ...
    The remarkable story of Jim Almonds, his WWII experiences, and his formative role in the birth of the SAS.Set in wartime England, the western desert, Italy, and France, this book captures the spirit of the young soldiers in the newly emerging Special Air Service, against a dramatic background of love, courage, and high-risk adventure.Jim Almonds, a sergeant in the Guards Commandos, sailed for the ... Read more

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  • SBS – Silent Warriors

    The Authorised Wartime History

    by Saul David ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘A terrific book … It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I’ve read in many a year’ JAMES HOLLAND‘Riveting … A brilliant account’ DAILY MAILTHE FIRST AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE SBS.Britain’s SBS – or Special Boat Service – was the world’s first maritime special operations unit. Founded in the dark days of 1940, it started as a small and inexperienced outf... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Life on the Death Railway

    The Memoirs of a British POW

    by Stuart Young ...
    As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived. Later in life, in graphic detail, he recorded the experience the dreadful conditions, the brutal treatment, the sickness and starvation, the merciless routine of forced labour. Yet he also recorded the comradeship among the prisoners, their compassion and strength, and the pastimes and ... Read more

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  • The Courageous Life of Weary Dunlop

    Surgeon, prisoner-of-war, life-saving leader and legend of the Thai-Burma Railway

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    The extraordinary story of the heroic doctor whose courage and leadership were a lifeline for thousands of Australian prisoners-of-war on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway of World War II - brilliantly told by Australia's favourite storyteller, Peter FitzSimonsIn September 1939, young Australian surgeon Edward 'Weary' Dunlop was working in London when the dogs of war were unleashed. Signing up, he ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop

    by Edward E Dunlop ...
    This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but also a testament to the ability of the human spirit to overcome the most unbearably cruel conditions.'I have the testimony of hundreds of Australians ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Ambon

    The truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Aussie spirit

    by Roger Maynard ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares.In February, 1942, Ambon, an Indonesian island north of Darwin, fell to the Japanese army and the Allied forces defending it were captured. Over a thousand of these soldiers were Australian. By the end of the war, just one-third of them had survived and Ambon became a place of nightmares, one of the most notorious of all POW ... Read more

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  • Descent into Hell

    The fall of Singapore - Pudu and Changi - the Thai Burma railway

    by Peter Brune ...
    The definitive story of the Australian campaign in Southeast Asia during World War II from one of Australia's leading military writers.'No man has the command of words needed for conveying.the courage and the cowardice; the loyalty and the treachery; the dedication and the dereliction; the strengths and the frailties; the kindness and the brutality; the integrity and depravity; the magnificence ... Read more

    $14.09 USD