One fourteenth of an elephant : a memoir of life and death on the Burma-Thailand railway
Peek, Ian Denys2005
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In 1942, Singapore fell to the Japanese. The author and his brother were just two of the tens of thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers and citizens taken prisoner. This is a powerful memoir of life and death as a prisoner of war working on the Burma-Thailand railway.
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London : Bantam, 2005.
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609 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
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Originally published: Australia: Pan Macmillan, 2003; London: Doubleday, 2004.
ISBN:
9780553816570 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.547252092
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English
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BRN:
651996