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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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Somme to Singapore...
$19.00From the Somme to Singapore a Medical Officer in Two World Wars ' By C Huxtable : used book
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Captives 2/10 AUST...
$19.00Captives - 2/10 AUST HOSPITAL ARMY NURSES IN JAPANESE POW CHANGI by C Kenny
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While History Passed...
$39.00While History Passed The Story of Australian Nurses who were prisoners of the Japanese for Three and a Half Years by J Simons
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Japanese Prisoners of...
$30.00Japanese Prisoners of War in Revolt: The outbreaks at Featherston and Cowra during WW2 By C. Carr Gregg
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Australian POW Descent...
$35.00Descent into Hell The Fall of Singapore Pudu and Changi and the Thai Burma Railway By P. Brune
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TWILIGHT LIBERATION...
$32.00TWILIGHT LIBERATION - Australian prisoners of war between Hiroshima and home.
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On Radji Beach The...
$26.00On Radji Beach The Story of the Australian Nurses after the Fall of Singapore
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The Night of a...
$21.00The Night of a Thousand Suicides The Japanese Outbreak at Cowra. by Teruhiko Asada
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The Hell Pits of...
$30.00The Hell Pits of Sendryu A POW story of survival on the Death Railway and Nagasaki By J Brigginshaw
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Dunera Lives: A Visual...
$40.00Dunera Lives: A Visual History By K Inglis, S Spark, J Winter, C Bunyan
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Japanese War Crimes...
$90.00Japanese War Crimes - The Trials of the Naoetsu Camp Guards by A B Lyon
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The Lost Battalions |...
$33.00The Lost Battalions A battle that could not be won. An island that could not be defended. An ally that could not be trusted. by T Gilling
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Behind the Wire - The...
$14.00Behind the Wire - The Clinical War Diary of Dr Burnett Clarke By B L Clarke
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FIGHTING MONSTERS...
$48.00 $55.00Fighting Monsters An Intimate History of the Sandakan Tragedy by RW Braithwaite
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Story 7 Battalion...
$27.00Escape Artist The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck by P Monteath
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Story WW2 POWs in...
$32.00Shooting Through Campo 106 escaped POWs after the Italian Armistice By: Katrina Kittel
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