Kurrah!: An Australian Pow In Changi, Thailand & Japan, 1942-1945
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the harrowing theatre of the Pacific War, one Australian soldier's story stands as a testament to the limits of human endurance and the unbreakable will to survive. Kurrah! chronicles the wartime odyssey of F. W. G. Power, an Australian prisoner of war who endured captivity across three of the most brutal theatres of Japanese imprisonment — the infamous Changi prison in Singapore, the death-haunted railway camps of Thailand, and the labour camps of Japan itself — from 1942 until liberation in 1945. With a foreword by the legendary Sir Edward Weary Dunlop, Australia's most revered POW medical hero, the narrative carries an immediate and deeply personal authority that situates it firmly within the canon of essential Australian wartime testimony. Power's account presents the daily reality of captivity with unflinching clarity, illustrating the camaraderie, despair, dark humour, and quiet heroism that defined the POW experience under Imperial Japanese command. The memoir belongs to a vital tradition of Australian war literature that refuses to let the sacrifices of the fallen and the suffering of the survivors fade into abstraction, insisting instead on the visceral, human truth of conflict. Bearing the endorsement of Sir Edward Dunlop lends the work a gravitas that will resonate with readers of military history, students of the Asia-Pacific War, and anyone who wonders how ordinary men survive the truly extraordinary — and what they carry home when they do.
Author: F. W. G. Power
Format: Paperback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the harrowing theatre of the Pacific War, one Australian soldier's story stands as a testament to the limits of human endurance and the unbreakable will to survive. Kurrah! chronicles the wartime odyssey of F. W. G. Power, an Australian prisoner of war who endured captivity across three of the most brutal theatres of Japanese imprisonment — the infamous Changi prison in Singapore, the death-haunted railway camps of Thailand, and the labour camps of Japan itself — from 1942 until liberation in 1945. With a foreword by the legendary Sir Edward Weary Dunlop, Australia's most revered POW medical hero, the narrative carries an immediate and deeply personal authority that situates it firmly within the canon of essential Australian wartime testimony. Power's account presents the daily reality of captivity with unflinching clarity, illustrating the camaraderie, despair, dark humour, and quiet heroism that defined the POW experience under Imperial Japanese command. The memoir belongs to a vital tradition of Australian war literature that refuses to let the sacrifices of the fallen and the suffering of the survivors fade into abstraction, insisting instead on the visceral, human truth of conflict. Bearing the endorsement of Sir Edward Dunlop lends the work a gravitas that will resonate with readers of military history, students of the Asia-Pacific War, and anyone who wonders how ordinary men survive the truly extraordinary — and what they carry home when they do.