Book, Allen & Unwin, Four thousand bowls of rice : a prisoner of war comes home, 1993

Physical description

Index, bibliography, notes, ill, p.179.

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

Over 60,000 Australians and Americans captured by the Japanese during World War II toiled and died to build the Bridge over the River Kwai. Respected military historian Linda Goetz Holmes tells the story of one man's survival in Japanese labor camps during WWII. Amazing photographs, taken secretly by other prisoners, chronicle this dark history of Allied troops in the Pacific theatre of war.

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