The Burma-Thailand Railway
Memory and History
by Gavan McCormack & Hank Nelson
The Burma-Thailand Railway dominates the experience of Australian prisoners
of war of the Japanese. Between November 1942 and October 1943 a force of
about 60,000 prisoners of the imperial Japanese army, together with an even
greater number of locally conscripted laborers, was mobilized to construct a
railway from Kanchanaburi in Thailand to Thanbutzayat in Burma. Many died in
the construction process, including 12,000 POWs (2,800 of them Australian).
They died from overwork, beatings, exhaustion, malnutrition and disease.
Survivors have carried the physical and psychological scars ever since. In
this book, some of the Australian survivors and Japanese and Australian
historians offer a real understanding of what happened on the railway and
why. Illustrated with B&W photos and drawings.
Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards NSW Australia, 1993, 1st paperback printing, 175
pages, 6" x 9", trade paperback, illustrated.
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