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Beyond the Bamboo Screen: Scottish Prisoners of War Under the Japanese

Beyond the Bamboo Screen: Scottish Prisoners of War Under the Japanese


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This work contains over forty articles, most written by Scottish survivors of Japanese Prisoner of War camps, as they describe the indescribable: deaths from beatings, disease and malnutrition; forced labour and capricious 'speedos'; heroic attempts at saving lives in bamboo shacks awash after the monsoon with little or no medical equipment and the bombing of unmarked ships by Allied planes. These articles, buried in a bottle and retrieved after the war, are historical records but also provide a tribute to the human spirit in the depths of adversity.

Table of Contents:
Part I Fall of Empire: Argylls in action; the dying throes; escape from Singapore; Changi jail ditty. Part II POW camps: four George Crosses for Hong Kong; more memories of Argyle Street; was it Bushido?; locked in a lavatory; a child in China. Part III The Thai-Burma railway: Japanese holiday; the Thai-Burma railway; afterthoughts; Lee Soon (alias Boon Pong); the best of enemies; intelligence behind bamboo; smiles; compensation. Part IV Mergui and Borneo: the road to Mergui; Borneo death march; Jap germ warfare. Part V Ships and mines: sinking of the Lisbon Maru; the hell-ship that sailed from Kowloon; 1100 POWs drowned; the Awu Maru; Iruku copper mines; banzai you bastards. Part VI Pests and pets: pests and pets; Peggy; Ludwig the sausage dog. Part VII The closing days: the last move; journey's end; the final solution; operation Rangoon jail; saved from friendly fire. Part VIII The Japanese surrender: the atom bombs; POWs saw bomb dropped; plane crashed carrying POWs; how the good news came to some; the Japanese surrender; then Hiroshima happened. Part IX Post mortem: innocents of Hiroshima - exploding the myth; the Manhattan project; Japanese A-bomb; Japan's experimental bomb; Changi evensong.

Review :
'These few Scots whose words appear in these pages are extraordinary men and women. We read this book with incredulity, with humility, with tears and with pride.' Dr Diana M Henderson, Research Director, The Scots at War Trust.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780953503612
  • Publisher: CUALANN PRESS
  • Publisher Imprint: Cualann Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Weight: 275 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0953503615
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 1999
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Sub Title: Scottish Prisoners of War Under the Japanese
  • Width: 150 mm


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