Four thousand bowls of rice : a prisoner of war comes home

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    • Holmes, Linda Goetz

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Four thousand bowls of rice : a prisoner of war comes home

Linda Goetz Holmes

Allen & Unwin, 1993

タイトル別名

4000 bowls of rice

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Includes bibliograpy (p. 174-175) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This work tells how one prisoner of war prepared himself, mentally and physically, for his journey home after three and a half years of brutal captivity in Java, Burma and Thailand during World War II. Staff Sergeant Cecil Dickson was a member of the 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion, which was forced to surrender to the Japanese in March 1942. His engineering unit bore the heaviest work in constructing the Burma-Thailand railway. The author draws on Dickson's letters home to his wife, and on research and interviews with many surviving Pioneers, to paint a dramatic picture of prisoner-of-war life under the Japanese. Readers can discover what it felt like to emerge abruptly from one day's starvation to the next day's air-drops, and from being in regimented captivity to being in charge of one's own time again. Dickson's writings also provide a glimpse of one man's determination to free his mind from continued captivity by replacing bitter memories with the sights and sounds of post-war Bangkok, and with tender thoughts of reunion with loved ones.

目次

  • A Sunday lament
  • it's good being free
  • too much of a good thing
  • the most exciting day
  • undreamed-of luxury
  • a would-be correspondent
  • finally, some money!
  • all this mail!
  • moving out
  • in touch with things again
  • this accursed lack of pence
  • "you understand?"
  • news from home!
  • another anniversary apart
  • free to shake the shackles
  • we're well on the way!
  • lost and found
  • 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion prisoners of wars.

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