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Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway Paperback - 2006

by H. Robert Charles; Foreword by James D. Hornfischer


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From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs and natives from nearby villages who had been forced into slave labour by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway. One of the few who survived, H. Robert Charles tells his story in this text.

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  • Title Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway
  • Author H. Robert Charles; Foreword by James D. Hornfischer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition By
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Zenith Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
  • Date November 15, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780760328200 / 076032820X
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.92 x 6.08 x 0.64 in (22.66 x 15.44 x 1.63 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and, World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006028939
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

H. Robert Charles was born in Pitcher, Oklahoma, Charles grew up on a wheat farm and cattle ranch near Hutchinson, Kansas, and enlisted in the Marine Corps in June 1940. He was a machine gunner aboard the USS Houston" at the time it was sunk by the Japanese in Sunda Strait, March 1, 1942. He swam nine hours, was picked up off the coast of Java by the Japanese, and held forty-three months in slave labor camps in Burma, Thailand, and Saigon.Repatriated at the end of the war by British paratroopers and Office of Strategic Services personnel, Charles spent time at a hospital in Calcutta before returning home.After graduating from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Charles later joined Parents Magazine" in New York, serving as family home editor.
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