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Author MacArthur, Brian.

Title Surviving the sword : prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45 / Brian MacArthur.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  940.5472 M    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.54 MACARTHUR    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  940.5472 MAC    Check Shelf
Description xxx, 458 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-439) and index.
Summary Describes the ordeal of American, British, and Australian prisoners held by the Japanese during World War II, revealing the hardships that they endured as well as the strength, determination, and friendship that helped many of them to survive.
Contents pt. 1. Surrender -- Changi -- The railway of death -- The real story of the bridge on the River Kwai -- "Speedo" -- Sonkurai : Valley of the Shadow of Death -- The railway opens -- pt. 2. Survival -- Books -- Food -- Religion -- Jungle medicine -- Smoking Gone with the wind -- King Rat -- Letters -- Entertainment -- Sports -- Ingenuity -- The "canaries" -- Officers and gentlemen -- pt. 3. The hellships -- Japan -- Haruku -- Sandakan -- Changi 1944-45 -- Freedom -- Home at last.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- East Asia.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Atrocities.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Conscript labor -- East Asia.
Prisoners of war -- East Asia.
ISBN 1400064139 alkaline paper
9781400064137 alkaline paper
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