A doctor's war
By: Rowley Richards.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Richards, Rowley.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian.; Prisoners of war -- Australia.; Prisoners of war -- Japan.; Physicians -- Australia -- Biography.
Genres: Personal narratives, Australian.; Biography.
Description: After the end of the Second World War, Australia's Directorate of War Graves Services uncovered an extraordinary document hidden in a bottle buried in a grave in Singapore. It was a summary of the secret diary of Dr. Rowley Richards, a POW and medical officer on the notorious Burma-Siam (Thailand) Railway. Richards, was just 23 when war broke out, and in a series of diaries he recorded the everyday brutality of the POW camps and also the courage, humour and mateship of his comrades....
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-317) and index.