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WWII--BURMA-SIAM RAILWAY POW FORCED LABOR!--POW DOCTOR'S SECRET DIARY! OOP

WWII--BURMA-SIAM RAILWAY POW FORCED LABOR!--POW DOCTOR'S SECRET DIARY! OOP

$ 6.33

Availability: 100 in stock
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Theme: Militaria
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Conflict: WW II (1939-45)
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Condition: EXCELLENT/LONG OUT-OF-PRINT
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Modified Item: No
  • Restocking Fee: No

    Description

    "THE BURMA-SIAM RAILWAY--THE SECRET DIARY OF DR ROBERT HARDIE 1942-45" is the INCREDIBLE personal story of Dr Hardie who served as a medical officer with the Federated Malay States Volunteer Force and spent three years as a POW. Some 61,000 Allied POWs were forced by their Japanese captors to work on the Burma-Siam Railway. Some 16,000 died from sickness, disease, exhaustion and malnutrition. Through his captivity, Dr Hardie kept a secret diary which vividly describes the hardships, monotony and humiliation of life in the squalid and overcrowded camps which marked the course of the "railway of death". Chapter titles are: 1. Robert Stevenson Hardie, A Persoanl Note by Elspeth Hardie,  2. Singapore,  3. Ban Pong,  4. Kanburi,  5. Wan Up-River,  6. March Up-River,  7. Takanum,  8. Chungkai,  9. Tamuang. Actual diary entries are here along with several of Dr Hardie's drawings while a POW. This is a totally MESMERIZING read! HARD TO FIND.
    Book is HARDBACK with DUSTJACKET published in 1983. It is in EXCELLENT CONDITION, measures 7 1/4" x 10 1/4" and contains 192 pages.
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