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Australian POW Books The advance of the Japanese during WW2 was fast and brutal. Singapore and the Pacific Islands were defended by thousands of Australians. In the first three months of 1942, the major locations that were surrendered included Malaya, Singapore, Java, Ambon, Timor and Rabaul. As these places were surrendered to the Japanese more than 22,000 Australians became prisoners of war. In the early part of WW2, the soldiers did not realise that the Japanese would treat POWs so harshly. The Japanese seen the POWs as sub human and exploited the soldiers as forced slave labour. The treatment become more severe as the war continued. It was just not the forced labour which made POW life difficult but the cruel torture, including food and medical deprivation. In many POW camps like Sandakan the Japanese wanted to cover up earlier war crimes by killing all POW witnesses. They then devised the horrendous Death Marches. Over 8000 Australian POWs died in captivity. These POW books examine how Australians went into captivity, how they endured, how so many lost their lives and the war crime trials after WW2 .
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POW Military Books Thai Burma Railway Hellfire Pass War Books
<p>Australian POW Prisoners of War Books about Thai Burma Railway Hellfire Pass Military Books DVD Docos. Nearly all our Australian POW Books are true stories many written by the Australian POW who worked on the Thai Burma Railway during WW2.</p>
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4000 Bowls Of Rice:...
$25.004000 Bowls Of Rice: A Prisoner Of War Comes Home by Linda Goetz Holmes
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Prisoners of War: From...
$35.00Prisoners of War: From Gallipoli to Korea ' by Patsy Adam - Smith - used book
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Borneo Surgeon...
$32.00' Borneo Surgeon A Reluctant Hero The Story of Dr James P. Taylor ' by Peter Firkins
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Aust POW Stories Thai...
$40.00The Men of the Line - Stories of the Thai-Burma Railway Survivors by P.Wright : New Book
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War Diaries Of Weary...
$15.00War Diaries Of Weary Dunlop: Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945
by EE (Weary ) Dunlop -
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460 Sqn RAAF Aussie...
$25.00One way flight to Munich Flying WITH 460 SQUADRON AND LIFE AS A POW
By A. F. Taylor : new book -
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Hell On Earth -...
$28.00 -20% $35.00Hell On Earth Sandakan - Australia's Greatest War Tragedy. by M. Cunningham
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Blue Haze History Aust...
$25.00The Blue Haze Incorporating the History of "A" Force Groups 3 & 5, Burma - Thai Railway, 1942-43
by L. Hall
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Stoker Digger 2/ AIF...
$10.00Stoker The Story of an Australian Soldier who Survived Auschwitz - Birkenau - used book
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ONE FOURTEENTH OF AN...
$13.00 $18.00One Fourteenth of an Elephant A Memoir of Life and Death on the Burma Thailand Railway WW2 by I. Denys Peek
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POW Veterans 2/10th...
$77.00 $89.00Medicos and Memories Recollections of the 2/10th Field Regiment AIF by Drs Dixon & Goodwin -
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Defying the Odds:...
$28.00Defying the Odds: Surviving Sandakan and Kuching by Michele Cunningham ; used book
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