| Main Title: |
Hell on earth : Sandakan - Australia's greatest war tragedy / Michele Cunningham. |
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| Author: |
Cunningham, Michele K. (Michele Katherine), author.
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| Publisher: |
Sydney : Hachette, |
| Collation: |
xvi, 335 pages, [14] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, maps, notes, bib., index, pbk ; 24 cm. |
| Summary: |
In mid- 1942, after the fall of Singapore, almost three thousand Allied prisoners of war were taken by the Japanese from Changi to Sandakan. Of those, 2500 men lost their lives. "Hell on Earth" is a remarkable story of bravery, brutality, mateship and survival. |
| Subject: |
Kuching Prisoner of War Camp, Sarawak
Sandakan Prison, Sabah
Changi Prisoner of War Camp, Singapore
World War, 1939-1945
Prisoner of war camps
Prisoners of war
Military history
Kuching (Malaysia)
Sandakan (Malaysia)
Malaysia
Australia
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| ISBN: |
9780733629891 (paperback) |
| Notes: |
Includes notes (pages 304-325) Sandakan is acknowledged as being one of the greatest tragedies in Australian military history. It is the story of 2800 Allied POWs (including 1500 Australians) who were taken from Changi in mid-1942 to Sandakan. 2500 died - many as a result of sickness, malnourishment and appalling violence by the Japanese. But worse were the casualties from the infamous 'death marches' - where many more hundreds died, or were killed by the guards, on forced evacuation marches as the Allied fighting came closer. Only 6 Australians survived from the 1500 who left Changi. . . Hell On Earth is the story of the men who lived and died in Sandakan: the men who refused to break, no matter how badly they were starved or beaten or tortured, the men who escaped in the early days, and fought with local guerrillas for the rest of the war, and it is the story of the depths to which the Japanese guards sank in their cruelty. . .
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