Dead Men Rising
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: unclipped dj ($3.00). Boards - light bumping on spine; binding remains tight.
A gripping work of wartime fiction rooted in the grim realities of the Pacific theatre, Dead Men Rising chronicles the harrowing experiences of Australian prisoners of war held in Japanese internment camps during World War II, drawing on the authentic moral and psychological tensions that defined that brutal chapter of history. Seaforth Mackenzie places his characters in the crucible of captivity, where survival, loyalty, and human dignity are tested against the systematic dehumanisation of camp life, forcing readers to confront questions of courage and complicity that resonate far beyond the battlefield. Mackenzie writes with a stark, unflinching realism that places Dead Men Rising firmly within the tradition of significant Australian war literature, presenting the interior lives of ordinary men caught in extraordinary and degrading circumstances with both empathy and unflinching honesty. His spare prose carries immense moral weight, building an atmosphere of claustrophobic tension that never relents — leaving the reader to wonder, long after the final page, what it truly means to remain human when all the structures of civilisation have been stripped away.
Author: Seaforth Mackenzie
Format: Hardback
Published: 1951, Harper & Brothers Publishers
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: unclipped dj ($3.00). Boards - light bumping on spine; binding remains tight.
A gripping work of wartime fiction rooted in the grim realities of the Pacific theatre, Dead Men Rising chronicles the harrowing experiences of Australian prisoners of war held in Japanese internment camps during World War II, drawing on the authentic moral and psychological tensions that defined that brutal chapter of history. Seaforth Mackenzie places his characters in the crucible of captivity, where survival, loyalty, and human dignity are tested against the systematic dehumanisation of camp life, forcing readers to confront questions of courage and complicity that resonate far beyond the battlefield. Mackenzie writes with a stark, unflinching realism that places Dead Men Rising firmly within the tradition of significant Australian war literature, presenting the interior lives of ordinary men caught in extraordinary and degrading circumstances with both empathy and unflinching honesty. His spare prose carries immense moral weight, building an atmosphere of claustrophobic tension that never relents — leaving the reader to wonder, long after the final page, what it truly means to remain human when all the structures of civilisation have been stripped away.