Ill, p.318.non-fictionExperience of an Australian sailor taken prisoner by the Kormoranworld war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - germany

p.233.non-fictionDiary kept by the authors when a prison in Japanese hands.world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - japan

Ill, p.266.non-fictionStory of the Malayan Campaign of 1942 and subsequent captivity in the hands of the Japanese from a private soldier's point of view. world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - japan, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war

p.247.non-fictionAustralian veterans of the Second World War who fought against the Japanese share their feelings about the war in the sixtieth anniversary of its close.world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - japan, world war 1939-1945 - veterans - attitudes

Ill, p.341.non-fictionStory of the captivity, experiences and escapes of of British airmen in World war Two.world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - germany, world war 1939-1945 - personal narratives

Index, bibliography, notes, ill, p.688.non-fictionThe untold story of the Sandakan death marches of World War II. After the fall of Singapore, in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors rounded up tens of thousands of British and Australian soldiers and shipped them to prison camps scattered throughout Hirohito's newly won Empire. The fall of Britain's 'impregnable fortress' was the greatest humiliation in British military history, for which Churchill never forgave the Japanese. But nothing would surpass the wretched fate of some 2,700 British and Australian prisoners who were shipped to British North Borneo later that year. They landed in Sandakan, on the east coast of the island, after a 10-day voyage on a Japanese 'hell' ship, and were herded into a jungle camp some eight miles inland. Thus began the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known story of unimaginable horror.world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - sandakan, japan - prisons and prisoners of war

Ill, maps, p.159.non-fictionThe building of the Burma - Thailand Railway by allied prisoners of warworld war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - japan, burma - thailand railway

Ill, maps, p.138.non-fictionIllustrated history of the Sandakan death marches. Includes a roll of honourworld war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - sandakan, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners and prisons - japan

Ill, p.87non-fictionHere in brief compass is the thrilling tale of air crew adventure told by its navigator, who was one of three Australian in a crew of six manning a Marauder aircraft operating from Africa over the Mediterranean. The aircraft becomes involved in combat, in which two enemy fighters are drive off, one emitting clouds of smoke; but the Marauder, too, is crippled, and comes down in the Mediterranean near the Italian Island of Ustica. Rescue from the sea is followed by the rigours of captivity in Fascist barracks and compounds, of travel through Italy, of sharing British air raids with their captors, assuming careless ease while their musical comedy soldier captors cannot conceal their unease. An ingeniously planned escape is successful; five prisoners break from the compound, and this party, with intrepidity and endurance, gain a liberty which is also a life of great hardship. Italian peasant life provides great interest, and friendly folk protect the adventurous band from the Fascists, while they meet at the coast a mysterious English Captain, who later proves to be a Commando officer on a mission; when this mission is accomplished, and not before, he helps the several groups of escapees to liberty. A motor torpedo boat calls at midnight and, within six months, home in Australiaworld war 1939-1945 - aerial operations - australia, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war

p.143.An account of the war experience as a prisoner by an American war correspondentworld war 1939-1945 - campaigns - north africa, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war

Ill, p.256.non-fiction The Wooden Horse is a superbly told story of the most ingenious and daring escape of the Second World War. The book became a modern classic. This revised and expanded edition tells the tale. The escape itself was conceived on classical lines. The Greeks built a wooden horse and by means of it got into the city of Troy In 1943 two British officers built a wooden horse and by means of it got out of a German prison camp. Together with a third companion, they were the only British prisoners ever to escape. world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war, world war 1939 1945 - escapes

Ill, p.263.non-fictionWith only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored german uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from the German "ferrets" who prowled the compounds with nerve-racking tenacity and suspicion. It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war, world war 1939 1945 - escapes

Ill, p.135.non-fictionThe experience of British prisoners of warworld war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war, prison camps - germany

p.175.non-fictionThe author tells of his imprisonment and escape from British North Borneo, of guerilla warfare in the Philippine archipelago and finally his voyage to Australia.world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war, world war 1939-1945 - escapes

Ill, p.131.The experience of Australian nurses as captives of the Japaneseworld war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - japan, world war 1939-1945 - personal narratives - australia

Index, ill, p.256.non-fictionA personal account of prison and escapes in wartime Germanyworld war 1939-1945 - personal narratives - britain, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - germany

Ill, p.391.non-fictionThe bestselling memoir of life as an Australian POW on the notorious Thai-Burma railway. Rohan Rivett was a journalist in Singapore when it fell to the Japanese in 1942. He escaped south - across the treacherous Bangka Strait - to Indonesia, but was soon captured and became just one of thousands of POWs struggling for existence in a Japanese camp. The struggle was to last for more than three years. Behind Bamboo is unflinching in its honesty and haunting in its realism. It is a vivid, compelling testament to the Australians' will to survive and their unassailable spirit in the face of the most callous inhumanity. world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - japan, burma railway

Index, ill, maps, p.682.non-fictionStory of the 8th Division in the campaigns in Malaya, Singapore, Rabaul, Ambon and Timor where most of the Division was captured by the Japanese in 1942. Also the story of the Australian Prisoners of the Japanese, including Changi and the Burma-Thailand Railway. world war 1939-1945 - australia, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - japan

Index, ill, maps, p.682.non-fictionStory of the 8th Division in the campaigns in Malaya, Singapore, Rabaul, Ambon and Timor where most of the Division was captured by the Japanese in 1942. Also the story of the Australian Prisoners of the Japanese, including Changi and the Burma-Thailand Railway. world war 1939-1945 - australia, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - japan

Ill, p.183.non-fictionA history of OFLAG IVc - a special prison for recalcitrant allied servicemen.world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war, world war 1939 1945 - escapes

Index, ill, p.335.non-fictionThe heart-rending story of the Australians brutally imprisoned in Sandakan, the Japanese POW camp in North Borneo, whose very name came to symbolise cruelty and ill-treatment. In mid-1942, after the fall of Singapore, almost three thousand Allied prisoners of war were taken by the Japanese from Changi to Sandakan. Of those, 2500 lost their lives. Men died at Sandakan and on the infamous death marches: they died from sickness and starvation, torture and appalling violence, or were killed by the guards as they were forced to keep moving along a seemingly never-ending track. Only six Australians survived the death marches, out of the thousand who left world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - sandakan, world war 1939 – 1945 - prisons and prisoners – australia

Illustrated book with red and black print on front and spine. Front cover also has a red, grey and white photograph of three nurses in uniform. Title and authors name on front and spine. Summary of book in black print on back covernon-fictionThe story of Australian nurses after the fall of Singapore in World War Twovivian bullwinkel, vyner brooke, australia army-nurses, world war 1939-1945 prisoners of war, nurses australia

Illustrated magazine. The front cover has a copy of a painting by Hilda Rix-Nicholas: Australian soldier of the Great War. The man is wearing a metal helmet and combat uniform. Title and list of contents are printed are printed in gold and red brown on front cover also. non-fictionThe Australian experience of war: the magazine contains other war related articles, the ones referring to nursing experiences are Florence Nightingale, Fanny Hines (died of pneumonia in the Boer War), Catherine Tully (awarded the 1914 Star with clasp) other World War One Experiences, Jessie Simmons (World War Two POW) Ann Mackinnon (served with the 2/6th Australian General Hospital), RAAF medevac nurses in Vietnam, nurses in Rwanda, and a review of the film Paradise Road.military nursing-australia-history, world war 1914-1918, world war 1939-1945, vietnam war, world war 1939-1945 prisoners of war, rwanda, nurses, nursing

Book has a red white and Malaya 1941, Nursing Sisters of cover, tile printed in white and author's name printed in black on front cover. On the front cover is a coloured black and white photograph "Malaya 1941, Nursing Sisters of 2/4 Clearing Station, 8 Division. Title and author's name also printed in white on spine. The back cover has a summary of the booknon-fictionn 1942 a group of sixty-five Australian Army nursing sisters was evacuated from Malaya aboard the Vyner Brooke, a few days before the fall of Singapore. Two days later their ship was bombed and sunk by the Japanese. Of the fifty-three survivors who scrambled ashore, twenty-one were murdered and the remaining thirty-two were taken prisoner. The book is the engrossing record kept by one of the sisters, Betty Jeffrey, during the three grueling years of imprisonment that followed. It is an amazing story of survival and deprivation in the harshest of conditions.world war 1939-1945 prisoners of war, nurses

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book has a yellow cover with title and author's name printed in white on front and spine. Dust jacket has a pale-yellow background, title and author's name printed in brown on front and spine. The front of the dustjacket also has a black and white photograph of the author (Alice Bowman) (seated) and Joyce McGahan (standing) they are wearing Sisters uniforms; a building of the Namanalu Hospital, Rabaul is behind them (1939). On the back cover is another black and white photograph: Rabaul panorama, and a summary of the book in brown print. non-fictionA true story of a civilian nurse from the Government Hospital in Rabaul, who was held prisoner in New Britain (six months) and Japan (3 years) following the Japanese attack of Rabaul in 1942world war 1939-1945, prisoners of war-papua new guinea, prisoners of war-japan, nurses

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book has a red cover with title and author's surname embossed in gold on spine. Front of the dust jacket has an illustration of a guard with female prisoners in the background (drawn by Geoff Tyson) Title is printed in yellow on a black background above this illustration, author's name is printed in white on a black background below this illustration. Title, author's and publisher's names are printed in black on a yellow background on the spinenon-fictionThe author was one of sixty-five Australian Army nurses ordered to leave Singapore aboard the Vyner Brooke. This is their story, including the years spent as prisoners of war in Sumatra by the survivorsworld war 1939-1945 prisoners of war, nurses

non-fictionThis book is about the life and times of Doug McLaggan starting with the vanished era of the 1920s and 1930s, which led up to the Second World War in which so many youngsters eagerly enlisted. McLaggan among them, saw action only briefly before becoming a POW after the fall of Singapore. It shows the young private soldier's viewpoint of the POW experience; of the mateship, humour and above all the courage and determination and willpower to live under circumstances ranking among the the most appalling of the 20th century. Even during the most trying periods, McLaggan risked his own security by keeping a meticulous diary. From these diaries emerges an extraordinary account of one man's will to survive when men unfit to work on the railway were so cruelly treated by the Japanese engineers in charge of its construction. The story of the POWs under the Japanese has been told before, but McLaggan's account, simply and honestly told, combined with his often forthright views makes this a fascinating and moving story of an ordinary man faced with an extraordinary test of body and mind. (Back cover)doug mclaggan, world war 1939-1945, prisoners of war

Index, bib, ill, p.208.non-fictionThe experiences of prisoners of war of all belligerents are described in this bookworld war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - germany, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners and prisons - japan

Index, ill, p.530.non-fictionOnly six escapees survived the Sandakan death marches of 1945 in North Borneo, the worst atrocity ever inflicted on Australian soldiers. 1787 Australian and 641 British POWs perished. Previous descriptions of the numerous violent acts have yielded little understanding of a situation where the real struggle was to keep one's humanity when so many were losing theirs, whether Allied POWs, local residents of Borneo, Javanese slave labourers, or Japanese soldiers. Understanding this extraordinary story is aided by reference to a wide range of sources in different countries and disciplines, and by examining the perspectives of all players in this terrible game of survivalworld war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - sandakan, world war 1939 – 1945 - prisons and prisoners - japanese