From Shanghai to the Burma railway : the memoirs & letters of Richard Laird, a Japanese prisoner of war /

From Shanghai to the Burma railway : the memoirs & letters of Richard Laird, a Japanese prisoner of war /

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Richard Laird's previously unpublished record of his wartime experience as a Japanese prisoner of war ranks among the most graphic of this shocking and deservedly popular genre. Captured after fighting in the Malayan Campaign he was incarcerated in Changi before being drafted as slave labour wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laird, Richard (Author)
Other Authors: Laird, Rory (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Barnsley, South Yorkshire ; Havertown, PA : Pen & Sword Military, 2020
Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2020
Subjects:
Laird, Richard > ^A3867401
Laird, Richard
Burma-Siam Railroad > History
Burma-Siam Railroad
1939-1945
Prisoners of war > Great Britain > Correspondence
Prisoners of war > Great Britain > Diaries
Prisoners of war > Japan > Correspondence
Prisoners of war > Japan > Diaries
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, British > ^A1084973
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, British
World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > ^A1076193
World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities
World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Burma
World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Thailand
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese > ^A1076351
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
Atrocities
Prisoners of war
Burma
Great Britain
Japan
Thailand
Autobiographies > ^A3314272
Diaries
History
Personal correspondence
Personal narratives
Personal narratives > British

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Stanford University

Holdings details from Stanford University
Call Number: D805 .J3 L35 2020

Cornell University

Holdings details from Cornell University
Call Number: D805.B9
D805.B9 L26 2020

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