Railwaymen in the war : tales by Japanese railway soldiers in Burma and Thailand, 1941-47 / [edited by] Kazuo Tamayama.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tamayama, Kazuo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burma-Siam Railroad--History.

Burma-Siam Railroad.

Japan. Rikugun--Military construction operations.

Japan.

Japan. Rikugun--Biography.

Nihon Kokuyū Tetsudō--Employees--Biography.

Nihon Kokuyū Tetsudō.

Japan. Rikugun.

World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--Japan.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese.

Employees.

History.

Oral history.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- Japanese.

Biographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xvi, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Summary:

The first Japanese army unit was established in 1896. The Japanese railway engineers was a unique branch of the army which specialized in the operation and construction of railways and the employees of the Japanese National Railways conscripted into the army. This book tells the stories of the railway soldiers and JNR men during their training, their working experience in Burma, their engagements with the allied armies and their life after the surrender through the memoirs and testaments of those soldiers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403932247

OCLC:

55511292

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