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is the stuff which nightmares are made of |
The appalling horrors of the Japanese prisoner of war camps during
World War II are in danger of being forgotten, writes Gerald Isaaman
THE National Archive now has online the stories more than 80,000
prisoners of war wrote about their experiences in some of most hated
prisoner of war (PoW) camps in Europe and Asia during World War
II, among them notorious places like Colditz and the Stalag camps.
But when it comes to the unimaginable excesses of human depravity
then this book, by the Times journalist Brian MacArthur, is a grim
and compelling savage saga of the worst atrocities you can ever
imagine, the raw stuff of nightmares.
MacArthur, who lives in Islington, has produced it with the aid
of the personal diaries of more than 150 PoWs – some accounts
surviving in beer bottles buried in graves – to mark the
60th anniversary on August 15 of VJ (Victory over Japan) Day. He
spent three-and-a-half years putting the tale of terror together,
visiting Thailand, Singapore and Australia, interviewing some of
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