Fighting monsters
Subtitle: an intimate history of the Sandakan tragedy
By: Richard Wallace Braithwaite
Publisher: Australian Scholarly
Published: 2016
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9781925333763
Subjects: Death marches; Death march survivors; Biography; Prisoners of war; Labor camps; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoners and prisons; World War (1939-1945) fast (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01180924
Description: "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."--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: 1. Beginnings; title: 2. The opening round; title: 3. The long journey to Sandakan; title: 4. Prison camp life at Sandakan; title: 5. Colonial Borneo and the coming of the Japanese; title: 6. Camp life slowly falls apart; title: 7. The death marches; title: 8. Resolution and repatriation; title: 9. Revenge and retribution; title: 10. Surviving the peace; title: 11. Responses to the Sandakan tragedy; title: 12. The journey to understanding and reconciliation.