Slaves of the Son of Heaven - A Personal Account of an Australian POW 1942-1945 (Paperback, 2Rev ed)


Roy Whitecross served as a Private in the 8th Division AIF from 1941 to 1945. He was incarcerated as a Japanese POW during World War II, he worked on the infamous Burma-Thailand Railway, where one man in every two that worked on it died; he endured deprivation, starvation, disease, torture and brutality. This gripping story of triumph, defeat, hope and defiance is fitting memorial to those soldiers who never returned home.

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Roy Whitecross served as a Private in the 8th Division AIF from 1941 to 1945. He was incarcerated as a Japanese POW during World War II, he worked on the infamous Burma-Thailand Railway, where one man in every two that worked on it died; he endured deprivation, starvation, disease, torture and brutality. This gripping story of triumph, defeat, hope and defiance is fitting memorial to those soldiers who never returned home.

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Imprint

Simon & Schuster

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

December 2001

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Dimensions

225 x 150mm (L x W)

Format

Paperback

Pages

304

Edition

2Rev ed

ISBN-13

978-0-7318-0770-3

Barcode

9780731807703

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LSN

0-7318-0770-7

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