Stubborn buggers : survivors of the infamous POW gaol that made Changi look like heaven

Stubborn buggers : survivors of the infamous POW gaol that made Changi look like heaven / Tim Bowden.

It made Changi seem like heaven. There was a place far worse than Changi-Singapore's Outram Road Gaol. Deprivation here was so extreme that there really was a fate worse than death. Stubborn Buggers is the story of 12 Australian POWs who endured and survived the Thai-Burma Railway and Sandakan,...

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Main Author: Bowden, Tim, 1937- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [United States] : Allen & Unwin : Made available through hoopla, 2014.
Subjects:
1900-1999
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons > Biography.
Prisoners of war > Australia > Biography.
Prisoners of war > Japan > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese > Biography.
Prisoners of war
Singapore > History > 20th century.
Outram (Singapore) > History.
Australia
Japan
Singapore
Singapore > Outram
Biographies
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Part title; Title page; Copyright; List of survivors of Outram Road Gaol; Contents; Introduction; 1. Betrayed; 2. The Chinese guerrillas; 3. 'Just to go into that place . . .'; 4. 'I thought I'd get a couple of them first'; 5. Sandakan death marches; 6. Just one day at Outram Road Gaol; 7. Youngie; 8. Pathways to Outram Road; 9. Changi was was like Heaven; 10. Surviving victory; 11. The legacy; The last word; Pic section; Bibliography; Index.

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