Author

Publication

2013 - Doubleday, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

164,000 words, Guess

Page Count

656 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC940.547252095953
  • LCCD805.5.S26 H36 2013

Description

After the fall of Singapore in 1942, the conquering Japanese Army transferred some 2500 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp at Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo. There they were beaten, broken, worked to death, thrown into bamboo cages on the slightest pretext and subjected to tortures so ingenious and hideous that the victims were driven to the brink of madness. But it was only to be the beginning of the nightmare. In late 1944 when Allied aircraft began bombing the coastal towns of Sandakan and Jesselton.

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Other Editions

  • Sandakan: the untold story of the Sandakan death marchesDoubleday2013-01-01

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