Title:
Stubborn buggers : the survivors of the infamous POW gaol that made Changi look like heaven
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Publication Information:
Sydney : bAllen&Unwin, 2014
Physical Description:
xi, 264 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781743314425
General Note:
Includes index
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Summary
Summary
There was a place far worse than Changi - this is the little known story of Singapore's Outram Road and the POWs who endured it.
Author Notes
Tim Bowden is an acclaimed oral historian, broadcaster, and radio and television documentary maker who, for many years as host of Backchat was known as the face of the ABC. He is author of many books including the much acclaimed One Crowded Hour: Neil Davis, combat cameraman. The Changi Camera: A unique record of Changi and the Thai-Burma Railway and the 'Penelope' outback travel series.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| 1 Betrayed | p. 1 |
| 2 The Chinese guerrillas | p. 19 |
| 3 Just to go into that place | p. 43 |
| 4 'I thought I'd get a couple of them first' | p. 68 |
| 5 Sandakan death marches | p. 97 |
| 6 Just one day at Outram Road Gaol | p. 124 |
| 7 Youngie | p. 132 |
| 8 Pathways to Outram Road | p. 150 |
| 9 Changi was like heaven | p. 165 |
| 10 Surviving victory | p. 189 |
| 11 The legacy | p. 212 |
| The last word | p. 241 |
| Bibliography | p. 244 |
| Index | p. 253 |
