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Book The Changi Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lachlan Grant
  • Publisher : NewSouth
  • Release : 2015-08-01
  • ISBN : 1742247377
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Changi Book written by Lachlan Grant and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Changi, told by those who lived through it. In the tradition of The Anzac Book comes this fascinating collection of accounts of life in the notorious Changi prison camp. Changi is synonymous with suffering, hardship and the Australian prisoner-of-war experience in WWII. It is also a story of ingenuity, resourcefulness and survival. Containing essays, cartoons, paintings, and photographs created by prisoners of war, The Changi Book provides a unique view of the camp: life-saving medical innovation, machinery and tools created from spare parts and scrap, black-market dealings, sport and gambling, theatre productions, and the creation of a library and university. Seventy years after its planned publication, material for The Changi Book was rediscovered in the Australian War Memorial archives. It appears here for the first time along with insights from the Memorial’s experts. ‘A moving insiders’ account of life in Changi.’ —Peter FitzSimons ‘A fresh perspective on Changi: illuminating stories from the inside.’ —Les Carlyon

Book Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience

Download or read book Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience written by R P W Havers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular perceptions of life in Japanese prisoner of war camps are dominated by images of emaciated figures, engaged in slave labour, and badly treated by their captors. This book, based on extensive original research, shows that this view is quite wrong in relation to the large camp at Changi, which was the main POW camp in Singapore.

Book Singapore  Changi and the Burma Thailand Railway

Download or read book Singapore Changi and the Burma Thailand Railway written by Kathrine Bell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how Australian prisoners of war dealt with the harsh treatment meted out to them by guards in the infamous prisoner of war camp at Changi, Singapore and at the forced labour camps along the Burma- Thailand Railway.

Book The Changi Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lachlan Grant
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-07-13
  • ISBN : 9781459696617
  • Pages : 662 pages

Download or read book The Changi Book written by Lachlan Grant and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Changi, told by those who lived through it. In the tradition of The Anzac Book comes this fascinating collection of accounts of life in the notorious Changi prison camp. Changi is synonymous with suffering, hardship and the Australian prisoner - of - war experience in WWII. It is also a story of ingenuity, resourcefulness and survival. Containing essays, cartoons, paintings, and photographs created by prisoners of war, The Changi Book provides a unique view of the camp: life - saving medical innovation, machinery and tools created from spare parts and scrap, black - market dealings, sport and gambling, theatre productions, and the creation of a library and university. Seventy years after its planned publication, material for The Changi Book was rediscovered in the Australian War Memorial archives. It appears here for the first time along with insights from the Memorial's experts.

Book Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience

Download or read book Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Child Prisoner of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Terence Ryan
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2021-10-24
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book A Child Prisoner of War written by Christopher Terence Ryan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of my father, Thomas Ryan's experiences as a young teenage seaman with Canadian Pacific ships during WW2; his being sunk in the Atlantic by a German bomber; rescued by the Royal Navy's HMS Tatar; then sunk again off Singapore by the Japanese on troopship RMS Empress of Asia and his subsequent time as a POW in Changi and Sime Road camps until the war ended. His return to education in the secret prison camp school, his working in the camp hospital, and the awakening of a desire to study medicine. HIs post-war enrolment in Liverpool University and subsequent qualification as a medical practitioner.

Book The Story of Changi  Singapore

Download or read book The Story of Changi Singapore written by David Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, compiled from the diary of David Nelson, is a personal record of events in and around Changi POW camp.

Book Life and Death in Changi

Download or read book Life and Death in Changi written by Tom Kitching and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Englishman Thomas Kitching died, aged 54, in Changi Prison in April 1944. Interned by the Japanese in 1942, Kitching, who was the Chief Surveyor of Singapore, faithfully kept a diary from December 1941.

Book Changi

Download or read book Changi written by Murray Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscences of the time the author spent with the Australian 8th Division as a prisoner of the Japanese during the Second World War. An Official War Artist, the text includes etchings inspired by his time in the Singapore jail.

Book Within Changi s Walls

Download or read book Within Changi s Walls written by George L. Peet and published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Japanese captured Singapore in February 1942, the European population was rounded up and sent to internment camps where they were kept till the end of the war. This is the story of one such internee - George L. Peet - whose diaries and records illustrate the triumph of the human spirit in those trying times.

Book History of Changi

Download or read book History of Changi written by H. A. Probert and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Luckiest Man in Changi

Download or read book The Luckiest Man in Changi written by Arnold Crabb and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of joining the Australian army and time spent in Changi war prison camp during World War Two.

Book The History of Changi

Download or read book The History of Changi written by Henry Probert and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Taste of Longing

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  • Author : Suzanne Evans
  • Publisher : Between the Lines
  • Release : 2020-09-21
  • ISBN : 1771134909
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Taste of Longing written by Suzanne Evans and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World War. They beat back pangs of hunger by playing decadent games of make-believe and writing down recipes filled with cream, raisins, chocolate, butter, cinnamon, ripe fruit – the unattainable ingredients of peacetime, of home, of memory. In this novelistic, immersive biography, Suzanne Evans presents a truly individual account of WWII through the eyes of Ethel – mercurial, enterprising, combative, stubborn, and wholly herself. The Taste of Longing follows Ethel through the fall of Singapore in 1942, the years of her internment, and beyond. As a prisoner, she devours dog biscuits and book spines, befriends spiders and smugglers, and endures torture and solitary confinement. As a free woman back in Canada, she fights to build a life for herself in the midst of trauma and burgeoning mental illness. Woven with vintage recipes and transcribed tape recordings, the story of Ethel and her fantastical POW Cookbook is a testament to the often-overlooked strength of women in wartime. It’s a story of the unbreakable power of imagination, generosity, and pure heart.

Book The Japanese Thrust

Download or read book The Japanese Thrust written by Lionel Wigmore and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dear Philip

    Book Details:
  • Author : Freddy Bloom
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Dear Philip written by Freddy Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942 a young American newspaper woman and her husband were taken prisoner. They had been married just nine days before, on her twenty-eighth birthday. As a British doctor serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps he was sent to the military prisoner-of-war camp at Changi. She was interned in the Changi women's civilian prison. The two of them were separated for the next three and a half years and during that time she kept a diary in the form of a letter to her husband Philip. He read it only when they were at last united. The it was put away with other family papers until it came to light some thirty-five years later. 'Dear Philip' is a touching account of one young woman's war spent mainly in overcrowded and sometimes extremely uncomfortable conditions with over four hundred other women. For five months Freddy Bloom was put into a cell in the infamous Kempe-Tai Interrogation Headquarters with fifteen men who were being systematically tortured for information that would convict their colleagues. She survived and returned to the camp to continue her love letter to Philip. Much has been written about men's suffering and survival in the Second World War. Not much about women's. 'Dear Philip' is a love story with a difference - and a war story too, but one devoid of blood and thunder, full of love and quiet determination." -- dust jacket.

Book The Changi Murals

Download or read book The Changi Murals written by Peter W. Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully researched account reveals the truth behind the man and his murals. It follows Stanley Warren's journey through World War II: from soldier, to prisoner of war, and his return to civillian life. It also tells of his remarkable, long-standing relationship with the murals