| Main Title: |
Digger's story : surviving the Japanese POW camps was just the beginning / David Barrett ; Brian Robertson. |
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| Author: |
Barrett, David
Robertson, Brian
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| Imprint: |
Scoresby, Vic. : The Five Mile Press, 2012. |
| Collation: |
24 cm. ill., portraits, map, facsims., notes, bib., pbk ; xii, 290 p., [8] p. of plates : |
| Summary: |
David Digger Barrett was given his nickname at an early age by his father. It was prophetic: as an eighteen-year-old looking for fun and adventure, he enlisted as a private and served in World War II. After surviving the Malayan campaign, he would spend over three years as a Japanese prisoner of war. It would take Digger more than fifty years to rid his mind of the hate he had for the guards of the Imperial Japanese Army. His story of courage, mateship and survival takes him from the prison camps of Thailand and Burma to the fight for reparations for all Australian POWs of the Japanese. |
| Subject: |
Barrett, David
Changi Prisoner of War Camp, Singapore
Burma to Siam Railway (Thailand)
World War, 1939-1945
Prisoner of war camps
Prison and prisoners
Military history
Biography
Singapore
Thailand
Australia
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| ISBN: |
9781743007426 (pbk.) : |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references.
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