Nippon slaves
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Nippon slaves
Janus, 1995
- [hbk.]
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description
Lionel de Rosario was a 20-year-old civil servant and member of the Singapore Volunteer Corps when the Japanese overran Singapore in February 1942, taking him prisoner for three and a half years. During that time he marched as one of the 1600 able-bodied British internees to Thailand where he worked on the infamous "Death" Railway. He was one of only 112 recognizable survivors of that ordeal to return to Singapore six months later. The author tells of the back-breaking 14-hour days in the monsoon-soaked jungle, the starvation, the beatings, the mlice and the cholera. He also writes about the camaraderie that developed among the prisoners: how they hoodwinked their captors by selling them a radio stolen from them only a few days earlier; how they listened to the BBC news under cover of running a radio-repair service; and how they persuaded their guard to change a sign intended for local dogs from Japanese to English as the dogs had not yet had time to learn Japanese.
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