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The death railway : the personal account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on the Thai-Burma Railroad / Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kappe, OBE, PSC, AMICE.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kappe, Charles, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Prisoners of war--Great Britain.
- Prisoners of war.
- Prisoners of war--Australia.
- Prisoners of war--Japan.
- Forced labor--Thailand--History--20th century.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Thailand.
- Burma-Siam Railroad.
- Australia.
- Great Britain.
- Japan.
- Thailand.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 183 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley, S. Yorkshire : Frontline Books, 2022.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Report on Activities of A.I.F. Component "F" Force
- ch. 1 Introduction
- ch. 2 Organization of the Force
- A.I.F. Component
- Medical Situation
- Red Cross
- Final Preparations
- ch. 3 Rail Journey Singapore to Thailand
- Conditions at Banpong Staging Camp
- ch. 4 March to Nieke Area
- ch. 5 Initial Distribution of the Force and Conditions During May and June 1943
- The Cholera Outbreak
- Lower Songkurai Camp
- No. 1
- Upper Songkurai Camp
- No 3
- Lower Nieke and Nieke Camps
- Pond's Battalion
- May and June
- ch. 6 Conditions During July
- No. 3
- Ponds' Battalion
- ch. 7 Re-organization and Conditions During the Height of the Monsoon Period, August-September and During October
- August
- September
- October
- Songkurai Camp (No. 2)
- Tanbaya Hospital, Burma
- August
- November
- ch. 8 Conditions During November and Return of the Force to Singapore
- Songkurai Camp
- Train Journey to Kanburi
- Kanburi
- Return to Malaya
- ch. 9 General
- Treatment of Natives
- Pay
- Records and Returns
- Medical
- Cemeteries
- Church Services
- Entertainments
- Morale
- Citations and Commendations
- Conclusion
- Lieutenant Colonel Kappe's Appendices
- pt. II Extracts of Unit Diary Maintained by Captain Ben Barnett.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781399017770
- 1399017772
- OCLC:
- 1289262589
- Publisher Number:
- 99991193540
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