Kill the Prisoners – Ignored by History, Only Now their Gallant Story is Exposed

Description

Title: Kill the Prisoners –  Ignored by History, Only Now their Gallant Story is Exposed. The Previously Undisclosed Fact of British Prisoners of the Japanese Who Died in Captivity in the Far East During 1942-1945

Author: Wall, Don

Condition: Mint

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 1996

ISBN: 0646278347

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 392 pages

Comments: The classic account of Australian and British Prisoners of War of the Japanese during World War 2.

Includes accounts about: British prisoners of war; Borneo; Diary of Flight Lieutenant Peter E.I. Lee; Sandakan-Ranau; Kuching-Labuan; Ballale Island (south of Bougainville) massacre of 518 British Artillerymen captured at Singapore and who were a part of a party of 600 sent initially to Rabaul, New Guinea; massacre of British R.A.F. and Royal Artillery personnel who were the survivors of the torpedoing of the Japanese prison ship ‘Suez Maru’; the 3 Sandakan death marches ordered by the retreating Japanese; British Government indifference and loss of interest in prosecuting the Japanese war criminals who perpetrated and participated in these massacres; British Government sealing of some sensitive files until the year 2020.

Contains detailed honour roll.