Railwaymen in the war

"The Japanese railway soldiers, who built the notorious Burma-Thailand railway in 1942-43, earned an unenviable reputation for brutality, but they have not hitherto told their own story. This is the first book to bring to light the testimonies of the soldiers of the Emperor, who worked with 55,200 British, Australian and Dutch prisoners of war in the construction of the 415-kilometre railway. The construction of the railway was an astonishing achievement in engineering, but one which came at the cost of the lives of 12,626 prisoners of war." "After Japan surrendered in August 1945, more than one thousand railway officers and soldiers were put in prison and given starvation rations for a year, whilst many of them received more severe sentences through the military crimes courts. This book gives their personal accounts."--Jacket.

Year

2014

Language

English

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Editions

1

ISBN

9781283181525

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