Bamboo cage
Subtitle: the P.O.W. diary of Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943
By: Robert Wyse ; edited by Jonathan F. Vance.
Contributors: Vance, Jonathan Franklin William, 1963-; New Brunswick Military Heritage Project.
Series: The New Brunswick military heritage series -- v. 13; New Brunswick military heritage series -- v. 13.
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Fredericton, N.B
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780864925299
Subjects: Wyse, Robert, -- 1900-1967; Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force -- Biography; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Canadian; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese; Prisoners of war -- Indonesia -- Java -- Biography; Prisoners of war -- Canada -- Biography
Genres: Personal narratives, Canadian; Biography
Description: "In 1942, RAF Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the Indonesian island of Java. In this no-holds-barred account, Wyse describes the harsh conditions he and his fellow prisoners suffered. Subjected to beatings, starvation, debilitating illness, and unbelievably harsh work, Wyse struggled to describe the brutalities he witnessed." "Although the punishment for keeping a diary would have been severe, Wyse persevered, scrounging for bits of paper and slivers of pencil and hiding his writing wherever he could until it became too dangerous to continue. Then, in December 1943, he buried his notes in a piece of bamboo under his prison hut." "Robert Wyse's diary was retrieved by a Dutch friend after the war. An historical goldmine of information on life as a prisoner of war, the diary reveals both the worst and the best of human nature."--Jacket.
Notes: Co-published by: New Brunswick Military Heritage Project.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-134) and index.