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Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway : narratives of history and memory /

Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway is the first book to detail the experiences of British former prisoners of war (POWs) who were forced to construct a railway across Sumatra during the Japanese occupation. It is also the first study to be undertaken of the life-writing of POWs held captive by the Jap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oliver, Lizzie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2018]
Series:War, culture and society.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Indonesia > Sumatra.
Prisoners of war > Indonesia > Sumatra.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, British.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, British.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Indonesia > History > Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
Railroads > Indonesia > Sumatra.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.

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Call Number: D805.I55 O45 2018
 
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