| Description |
1 online resource (349 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Dedication; Chapter 1: How it Began; Chapter 2: A Very Important Job; Chapter 3: We Leave Our Homeland; Chapter 4: The Chaos Begins; Chapter 5: Fighting in Singapore; Chapter 6: After the Fighting; Chapter 7: Prisoners of War; Chapter 8: Captured!; Chapter 9: An Introduction to PoW Life; Chapter 10: In Changi PoW Camp; Chapter 11: River Valley Road Camp; Chapter 12: Balachang and Bayonet Fighting; Chapter 13: Sorties Outside the Wire; Chapter 14: Yasume Days and Messages Home; Chapter 15: I Get Some Ducklings and We Leave Changi |
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Chapter 16: Into ThailandChapter 17: Our First Allied Planes and Catching a Thief; Chapter 18: A Japanese Friend and Lost in the Jungle; Chapter 19: Bamboo, a Drunken Captain and Swimming to Freedom; Chapter 20: A Very Fine Leader; Chapter 21: Tamarkan and Sexton Baynes; Chapter 22: I Land Myself in Trouble; Chapter 23: A Monument to Our Dead, Allied Aircraft; Chapter 24: Blood, Wells and Evil in High Places; Chapter 25: Slaughterman, Oven Builder and Much Sweetness; Chapter 26: Bridges, Oxen, Tigers, a Javanese Lad and a Sword; Chapter 27: Bridges, Elephants and Air Raids |
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Chapter 28: Wounded Soldiers, an Aussie Friend and Twice PoisonedChapter 29: Down to Four Stone, a Jap Horse Doctor and the True Story of the Bridge over the River Kwai; Chapter 30: Our Officers Go, a Top-Class Train Ride, Typhoon, Water Shortage, Aerodrome Building and an Escape; Chapter 31: Injuries Heal, I Take Charge of the Aussies, the War Ends; Chapter 32: An American Visitor, Red Cross Goods, the Officers Return; Chapter 33: Home at Last; Appendix: Kranji, or the Singapore Traitor |
| Summary |
The Author kept a diary recording his 1,000 days of captivity at the hands of the Japanese army. The difficulties and risks involved in this task were immense, yet he persevered although it meant deliberately defacing and cutting up the small pieces of paper. As a result, his memoir is both contemporaneous and entirely reliable. Reading this account of life and death during the fruitless fighting and his subsequent captivity in numerous camps in Singapore and on the Death Railway in Thailand is a humbling and moving experience. He describes not just the appalling hardship and brutality but, te |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Baynes, L. L
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| SUBJECT |
Baynes, L. L. fast |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781473828315 |
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1473828317 |
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9781473829176 |
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1473829178 |
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