Medical officers on the infamous Burma railway
Grehan, John2022
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In 1944, a compilation of medical reports from the main prisoner of war work camps along the infamous Thailand-Burma railway was submitted to General Arimura Tsunemichi, commander of the Japanese Prisoner of War Administration. The authors stated that the reports were neither complaints nor protests, but merely statements of fact. The prisoners received only one reply - that all copies of the documents must be destroyed. As one officer later recalled, 'Of course, this was not done' & copies of these reports survived, stored away in dusty files, for future generations to learn the truth. The reports presented here are quite unique, for they were written by the medical officers in the camps as the events they describe were unfolding before their eyes. The health & well-being of the PoWs was the medical officers' primary concern, & these reports enable us to learn exactly how the men were treated, fed & cared for in detail.
Main title:
Medical officers on the infamous Burma railway / John Grehan.
Author:
Grehan, John, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Frontline Books, 2022.
Collation:
224 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399095624 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.547252
LC class:
D805
Local class:
940.547
Language:
English
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Burma -- SourcesWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- ThailandPrisoners of war -- Health and hygiene -- Japan -- SourcesWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, JapaneseBurma-Siam Railroad -- HistoryJapan. Rikugun -- Medical personnelWarfare and Defence
BRN:
3049041