This book contains a collection of stories of captivity and escape from World Wars I and II, all involving Australian soldiers. The stories tell of capture, imprisonment and escape - in Europe, under German and Italian captors, and in Southeast Asia. There was quite a contrast between being a prisoner of the Europeans and a prisoner of the Japanese; Japan, unlike Germany and Italy, was not a signatory to the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war and, of over 22,000 Australians taken prisoner by the Japanese ...
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This book contains a collection of stories of captivity and escape from World Wars I and II, all involving Australian soldiers. The stories tell of capture, imprisonment and escape - in Europe, under German and Italian captors, and in Southeast Asia. There was quite a contrast between being a prisoner of the Europeans and a prisoner of the Japanese; Japan, unlike Germany and Italy, was not a signatory to the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war and, of over 22,000 Australians taken prisoner by the Japanese, more than one third died in captivity. The German and Italians acknowledged that escape was a PoW's duty, while the Japanese regarded any attempt to escape as an offence punishable by execution. "Barbed Wire and Bamboo" thus presents contrasting PoW experiences - of daring escapes from Colditz Castle and endurance and slow suffering in Japanese camps.
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Add this copy of Barbed Wire & Bamboo to cart. $23.58, good condition, Sold by Seagull Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hove, EAST SUSSEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1992 by Allen Unwin.
Add this copy of Barbed Wire and Bamboo to cart. $23.96, very good condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1993 by Allen & Unwin.
