Honestly, I'm not posting this to piggyback on the previous few posts. It just happened that I came along this one, which not only deals with World War II, but also relies on oral history for much of its content.
I don't quite know what to make of this book. I did a search on Amazon for it. It apparently doesn't exist there. The only hit is for
The Barbed Wire University: The Real Lives of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War by Midge Gillies. Similar topic, but not the same title. Not the same author, either.
After doing a little bit more research, I just decided to turn it over to you, just giving you what I knew about it. Hope it's a good one.
The topic is certainly intriquing. This might make a great movie, imho. Who knows, one may be in the offing right now, as the book was published just a couple of years ago.
Title: Captive Audiences/Captive Performers: Music and Theatre as Strategies for Survival on the Thailand-Burma Railway 1942-1945.
Format: Pdf.
Author(s): Sears A. Eldredge.
Publisher: Macalester College?
Pages: ii + 627.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): N/A.
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at Amazon if available there: N/A.
Book Description (Amazon):
This book tells the story of how music and theatre helped the 61,000 POWs who were sent to these camps survive their ordeal. It is a story that is not well-known to history and it is now being recovered. It is a story about how music and theatre and the other arts are absolutely essential to a society's life.
Comments: Legal (license-type stuff) information: "This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Captive Audiences/Captive Performers at DigitalCommons@Macalester College." The webpage, for the book, at Macalester College is at
http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/captiveaudiences/.
URL: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu...text=thdabooks (direct link).