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Sandakan : the untold story of the Sandakan Death Marches / Paul Ham.
Publication details: North Sydney, N.S.W. : William Heinemann, 2012.Description: 656 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781864711400 (hbk.)
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 940.547 HAM | Available | 056771 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 589-637) and index.
The story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2700 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp some eight miles inland of Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo.
Tertiary/Undergraduate, Postgraduate, General.
