Life on the Death Railway

Life on the Death Railway

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Life on the Death Railway

The Memoirs of a British POW




Author:Stuart Young
Language:English
Format:Hardcover
Dimensions:6" x 9"
Pages:240
Photos:20 illustrations
Publisher:Pen and Sword Military
ISBN:9781848848207
Item No. 9781848848207



As a young man, Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived. Later in life, in graphic detail, he recorded the experience – the dreadful conditions, the brutal treatment, the sickness and starvation, the merciless routine of forced labor. Yet he also recorded the comradeship among the prisoners, their compassion and strength, and the pastimes and entertainments that helped them to come through an ordeal that is hard to imagine today. First, he was held at the notorious Changi camp in Singapore Island, then in the camps in Thailand that accommodated POWs who were forced to work on the ‘Death Railway’. Perhaps the most revealing passages of his memoir recall the daily experience of captivity - the ceaseless battle to survive the backbreaking work, the cruelties of the guards and ever-present threat of disease. His account gives a harrowing insight into the daily reality of captivity, it shows why he was determined to document and make sense of what he, and his fellow prisoners suffered.