Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke, Into the Smother, The Sword and the Blossom |
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Ray Parkin
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Pages: 970 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0522850677
Pub: Melbourne University Press
Pub date: 2003-02-15
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 358413
Reader Reviews:
A true hero's recollection of a POW camp (1/1 people found this helpful)
I suppose as both Australian's and British were subjected to the horrors of the Japanese Slave labour in WWII, a trilogy such as this should become a school text to personify the expression "Lest We Forget".
PARKINS story evocatively explains his life as a sailor, a shipwreck survivor, a POW in the indescribable horror of Japanese brutality, his survival of the Burma Railway, and subsequent transport to Japan to work in coal mines, the dropping of the bomb(s)in Japan and his release and return to his wife.
The thing about this book that will bring tears to your eyes, it is real.
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Books -> Subjects -> Biography -> War & Espionage -> World War II
Books -> Subjects -> Biography -> Historical -> Countries & Regions -> Australia & New Zealand
Books -> Subjects -> History -> Countries & Regions -> Australasia & Pacific -> Australasia -> Australia
Books -> Subjects -> History -> Countries & Regions -> Australasia & Pacific -> Australasia -> New Zealand
Books -> Subjects -> History -> General
Books -> Subjects -> History -> World History -> World War II 1939-1945 -> Battles & Campaigns
Books -> Subjects -> History -> World History -> World War II 1939-1945 -> Biographies & Memoirs