| Description |
xx, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
After the end of the Second World War, Australia's Directorate of War Graves Serivces uncovered an extraordinary document hidden in a bottle buried in a grave in Singapore. It was a summary of the secret diary of Dr. Rowley Richards, a POW and medical officer on the notorious Burma-Siam (Thailand) Railway. Richards, was just 23 when war broke out, and in a series of diaries he recorded the everyday brutality of the POW camps and also the courage, humour and mateship of his comrades.. |
| Analysis |
Australia - family history |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-317) and index |
| Subject |
Richards, Rowley.
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Physicians -- Australia -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- Australia.
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Prisoners of war -- Japan.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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Physicians -- Australia -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- Australia.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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| LC no. |
2006373493 |
| ISBN |
0732280087 |
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