Fighting Monsters: An Intimate History of the Sandakan Tragedy
by Braithwaite, Richard Wallace
- New
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 1925333760
- ISBN 13
- 9781925333763
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2016. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xxii, 530 pages. Only 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 survival. An unusual and extreme POW story, the Sandakan tragedy had four stages: active resistance in 1942â3, stubborn endurance in 1943â4, the collapse of civilized existence in 1945 and, finally, the postwar decades of torment for the six damaged survivors, the gradual assimilation of the story, the healing of the damage and the commemoration of the tragedy by the families and communities involved. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB291068
- Title
- Fighting Monsters: An Intimate History of the Sandakan Tragedy
- Author
- Braithwaite, Richard Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1925333760
- ISBN 13
- 9781925333763
- Publisher
- Australian Scholarly Publishing
- Place of Publication
- North Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2016
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military-ww2;
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Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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