Keep the Men Alive: Australian POW doctors in Japanese captivity

by Rosalind Hearder

Book Overview

'The thing that haunts me most to this day is that blokes were dying and I could do bugger all about it - do you look after the bloke who you know is going to die or the bloke who's got a chance?' - Australian ex-POW doctor, 1999

During World War II, 22 000 Australian military personnel became prisoners of war under the Japanese military. Over three and a half years, 8000 died in captivity, in desperate conditions of forced labour, disease...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367718553
• ISBN13: 9780367718558
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"