06-24-2012, 08:52 AM | #1 |
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help needed please
Hi everyone
I am currently looking for books on the second world war--Japanese POW camps true stories these are for my father which i have just bought a kindle touch but im at a loss where to find these any help would be appreicated ps i have done a search but dont know if im doing it correctly Regards |
06-24-2012, 09:07 AM | #3 |
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Please ask questions in the correct forum. I'm moving this to "Reading Recommendations". Using a specific title for your thread, such as "Looking for POW stories", is much more likely to achieve results than a meaningless "help needed" title such as you've used.
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07-03-2012, 10:08 PM | #4 |
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Try Unbroken by Laura Hillebrand
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07-04-2012, 10:03 AM | #5 |
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Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard, The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle, maybe?
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Thankyou for the above titles, i also apoligise for putting this in the incorrect
place on the forum.......... |
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Some fiction works include The Bridge over the River Kwai (see above), King Rat by James Clavell, and A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute. They all heavily understate the true horrors.
Lord Russell of Liverpool assisted the Japanese War Crimes Tribunals, and tried to set the records straight in The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes. There is a long list of personal memoirs under Book References in the Wikipedia article "Burma Railway". To these you could add Betty Jeffrey's book White Coolies. You could also look up Wikipedia on "Changi". My old man was in Changi, and had a large collection of these books at one stage. His take on it was that some of these books depicted the facts better than others, but none of them did so completely, because they were all written by survivors, and not by the myriad dead. |
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