Description
Title: Doctor’s Diary and Memoirs – Pond’s Party, F Force, Thai – Burma Railway
Author: Mills, Roy
Condition: Near Mint
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0646194739
Cover: Hard Cover without Dust Jacket – 248 pages
Comments: In 1943 Captain Roy Mills was the only doctor with over 700 Australians on some of the most isolated work camps on the Burma-Thailand Railway.
The monsoon rains washed the flimsy huts and tents, low cloud hung over the area, and the meagre supplies of food and medicines were impeded by Japanese indifference, mud and flood. The Australians, weakened by malnutrition, were vulnerable to cholera, dysentery, tropical ulcers and malaria. The doctor stood at the critical point between the men and the Japanese demands for more prisoners to work longer and faster, and he was, in the eyes of many of the men, their one defence against death by disease.
Roy Mills’ diary is a personal and professional record of those terrible and significant times. The whole is set within his evocative essays that enlarge on the brief diary entries, and provide a contemporary perspective.
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