The Fourteenth Of An Elephant. A Memoir Of Life And Death On The Burma-Thailand Railway

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: Reprint

Description: 520 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Memoirs of an Australian prisoner-of-war after the fall of Singapore in World War II.Traces the authors capture and transportation to Thailand as part of the prisoner labour force for the Burma-Thailand railway and the three years of hardship that followed as a slave labourer. Written in present tense, the author relates his experiences moving from camp to camp, as well as his stubborn refusal to die. Includes authors note with glossary of foreign words and maps.

ISBN: 9780732911683