| Record Number |
552192 |
| ISBN |
9781925333763 |
| Author |
Braithwaite, Richard |
| Title |
Fighting monsters : an intimate history of the Sandakan tragedy / by Richard Wallace Braithwaite. |
| Portion of title |
Intimate history of the Sandakan tragedy |
| Publication details |
North Melbourne, Victoria Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2016. |
| Pagination etc. |
xxii, 530 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm. |
| Summary Note |
"An unusual and extreme POW story, the Sandakan tragedy had four stages: active resistance in 1942-3, stubborn endurance in 1943-4, the collapse of civilized existence in 1945 and, finally, the postwar decades of torment for the six damaged survivors, the gradual assimilation of the story, the healing of the damage and the commemoration of the tragedy by the families and communities involved."--Back cover. |
| Subject |
Sandakan (Concentration camp) -- History |
| Death marches -- Borneo |
| Death march survivors -- Australia -- Biography |
| Prisoners of war -- Australia -- Biography |
| Prisoners of war -- Borneo -- Biography |
| Labor camps -- Malaysia -- Sandakan (Sabah) |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons |
| Prisoners of war -- Australia |
| Death marches -- Malaysia |
| Prisoners of war -- Great Britain |
| Prisoners of war -- Malaysia -- Sandakan (Sabah) |
| Concentration camps -- Malaysia -- Sandakan (Sabah)History |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese |
| History |
| Australian |
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