Description
Title: The Bridge at Parit Sulong – an Investigation of Mass Murder Malaya 1942
Author: Silver, Lynette Ramsay
Condition: Very Good Plus
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0949284653
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 485 pages
Comments: Parit Sulong a small town in Johor, Malaysia. Muar to the west, was the site of an offensive Australian battle against the advancing Japanese forces in 1942. After four days of none stop combat the retreating Australians and Indians reached the Parit Sulong Bridge. The historical Parit Sulong Bridge was constructed before World War II in the 1930’s. The Australians found that the Japanese Forces had already overrun the bridge. The Australian Commander, Charles Anderson declared, “every man for himself” and 135 badly wounded men were left behind. Of cause, the Australians thought the men would be treated humanely. A terrible massacre of 161 Australian troops and Indians followed. It was not just a massacre, but the men were subjected to torment and cruelty before being burnt alive. Few escaped, but a 2/29th Australian Lieutenant Ben Hackney survived the war to relate the details of the massacre.
This is the largest book ever written on the Battle, the amount of detail collected is quite extraordinary.
Importantly, the book has a full nominal roll of the 478 Australians who died during the Battle and after.
This is their story
