| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 151 pages) : illustrations |
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Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 Outward Bound; Chapter 2 Slim River; Chapter 3 Into Bondage; Chapter 4 A Poor Exchange; Chapter 5 The Great Trek; Chapter 6 Pastures New; Chapter 7 Promotion and Reorganization; Chapter 8 Boon Pong; Chapter 9 Cholera Breaks out; Chapter 10 Adventures of the 'Canary'; Chapter 11 The Pace Hots up; Chapter 12 A Birthday Party; Chapter 13 The Stage; Chapter 14 Keeping Fit; Chapter 15 Kokobo's Farm; Chapter 16 The White Slug; Chapter 17 I Take a Rest; Chapter 18 'Amputs'; Chapter 19 The Lighter Side; Chapter 20 Chungkai Church; Chapter 21 The Cemetery |
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Chapter 22 Mass HysteriaChapter 23 Attack from the Air; Chapter 24 The Camp Police; Chapter 25 The Exodus from Chungkai; Chapter 26 The Drower Incident; Chapter 27 A New Dawn Breaks; Chapter 28 Rehabilitation; Chapter 29 Freedom at Last; Family Epilogue; Appendix |
| Summary |
Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for moving reading but Colonel Owtrams account of his years of captivity has a special significance. After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway he was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, one of the largest POW camps. Many ex-prisoners testified to the mental and physical courage that he showed protecting POWs from the worst excesses of their captors. Of course his account does not admit to this but what is clear is that in addition to the deprivation and hardship suffered by all POWs, the author bore heavy responsibility for those under his charge and the daily trauma of dealing with the unpredictable Japanese. It is not only the prisoners who suffered but their families at home. The postscript written by the authors daughters vividly demonstrates the agonies of doubt and worry that loved ones went through and the effect of the experience on all |
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Print version record |
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Owtram, Cary, 1899-1993
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Owtram, Cary, 1899-1993. fast/nic |
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Chungkai (Thailand : Prisoner of war camp)
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Chungkai (Thailand : Prisoner of war camp) fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Prisoners of war
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Japan
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Great Britain
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Thailand
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| Genre/Form |
Diaries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781473897816 |
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1473897815 |
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