Stubborn buggers, survivors of the infamous POW gaol that made Changi look like heaven, Tim Bowden
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- Outram (Singapore) -- History
- Prisoners of war -- Australia -- Biography
- Audiobooks
- Prisoners of war -- Singapore -- Outram -- Biography
- Prisoner-of-war camps -- Singapore -- Outram -- History -- 20th century
- Nonfiction
- Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 + Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian
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Stubborn buggers, survivors of the infamous POW gaol that made Changi look like heaven, Tim Bowden
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eng
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historybiography
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Stubborn buggers
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883715895
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Tim Bowden
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survivors of the infamous POW gaol that made Changi look like heaven
Summary
This is the little known story of Singapore's Outram Road Gaol and the POWs who endured it. 'It made Changi seem like heaven.' There was a place far worse than Changi, Singapore's Outram Road Gaol. Deprivation here was so extreme that there really was a fate worse than death. Stubborn Buggers is the story of twelve Australian POWs who fought and survived the battle for Malaya, then captivity and slave labour, followed by the unimaginable hardships of Outram Road Gaol. It is a story of how they dealt with the brutality of the Japanese military police, the feared Kempeitai. And it is the story of how they found a way to go on living even when facing a future of no hope and slow death. But Stubborn Buggers is about more than suffering and brutality. It is also a story of grit, determination and larrikin humour. It is very much about the triumph of the human spirit
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adult
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