Stubborn buggers, survivors of the infamous POW gaol that made Changi look like heaven, Tim Bowden
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Subject
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- Prisoners of war -- Australia -- Biography
- Prisoners of war -- Singapore -- Outram -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 + Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
- Nonfiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian
- Prisoners of war -- Singapore -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945
- Prisoners of war -- Singapore
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Stubborn buggers, survivors of the infamous POW gaol that made Changi look like heaven, Tim Bowden
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
portraitsplatesillustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Stubborn buggers
Responsibility statement
Tim Bowden
Sub title
survivors of the infamous POW gaol that made Changi look like heaven
Summary
It made Changi seem like heaven... This was a place where the deprivations were so extreme that there was a fate worse than death. That place was Outram Road Gaol and this is the story of a bunch Australian POWs who survived the brutality of the feared Kempeitai, the Japanese military police unit that made the Gestapo seem benign by comparison. But Outram Road was not only a place of punishment. Here executions were also common, often by beheading with a samurai sword... Stubborn Buggers is more to this story than suffering and brutality, however. It is also a story of survival through grim determination and larrikin humour. It is very much about the triumph of the human spirit
Target audience
adult
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