Sandakan
Subtitle: the untold story of the Sandakan death marches
By: Paul Ham
Publisher: Doubleday; Doubleday UK
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780857521033; 9780857521040; 9781448126262
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Internment camps; History; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Prisoners and prisons; Konzentrationslager; Kriegsgefangener; Concentration camps; Sandakan (Concentration camp)
Description: After the fall of Singapore in 1942, the conquering Japanese Army transferred some 2500 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp at Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo. There they were beaten, broken, worked to death, thrown into bamboo cages on the slightest pretext and subjected to tortures so ingenious and hideous that the victims were driven to the brink of madness. But it was only to be the beginning of the nightmare. In late 1944 when Allied aircraft began bombing the coastal towns of Sandakan and Jesselton.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 620-637) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Before. Singapore lost ; The Boat ; British North Borneo ; No. 1 Prisoner of War Camp ; Officers and men; title: pt. 2 The Camp. First escapes ; The commandant ; The drome ; Flesh and bone ; The Cage; title: pt. 3 Resistance. The Radio ; The underground ; The Berhala eight ; Guerrillas ; Arrivals ; Betrayal ; The Kempei-Tai ; Mountain revolt ; Kuching ; Execution; Rescue?; title: pt. 4 They march. New Year 1945 ; The First March; White porters ; The guards ; An example; Self-sacrificed ; Rescue? ; The Second March ; Two ; The chaplain; The last jungle camp ; Three ; One ; Mati Mati ; The Last ; Crucified; title: pt. 5 Revelation. Surrender ; Relics ; The trials ; The people ; Home.