Railroad To Burma
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few stories from the Second World War carry the raw human weight of those told by the men who built the Burma-Thailand Railway — and Railroad to Burma by James Boyle stands as a powerful firsthand account of that harrowing ordeal. Boyle, an Australian POW, chronicles his brutal captivity under the Imperial Japanese Army, detailing the backbreaking labour, starvation, disease, and death that defined life along the infamous Death Railway, where tens of thousands of Allied prisoners and Asian labourers perished constructing a 415-kilometre rail line through dense jungle and mountainous terrain. Written with unflinching honesty and quiet dignity, this memoir transcends the genre of mere survival narrative, presenting instead a profound meditation on endurance, camaraderie, and the resilience of the human spirit under the most extreme conditions imaginable. Boyle's prose is spare yet deeply affecting, capturing the day-to-day reality of camp life with a soldier's directness and a survivor's retrospective clarity. Published by the esteemed Allen & Unwin, Railroad to Burma sits alongside the great testimonies of wartime captivity — and leaves the reader wondering how any man could emerge from such darkness, and what part of him was left behind in the jungle.
Author: James Boyle
Format: Hardback
Published: 1990, Allen & Unwin
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few stories from the Second World War carry the raw human weight of those told by the men who built the Burma-Thailand Railway — and Railroad to Burma by James Boyle stands as a powerful firsthand account of that harrowing ordeal. Boyle, an Australian POW, chronicles his brutal captivity under the Imperial Japanese Army, detailing the backbreaking labour, starvation, disease, and death that defined life along the infamous Death Railway, where tens of thousands of Allied prisoners and Asian labourers perished constructing a 415-kilometre rail line through dense jungle and mountainous terrain. Written with unflinching honesty and quiet dignity, this memoir transcends the genre of mere survival narrative, presenting instead a profound meditation on endurance, camaraderie, and the resilience of the human spirit under the most extreme conditions imaginable. Boyle's prose is spare yet deeply affecting, capturing the day-to-day reality of camp life with a soldier's directness and a survivor's retrospective clarity. Published by the esteemed Allen & Unwin, Railroad to Burma sits alongside the great testimonies of wartime captivity — and leaves the reader wondering how any man could emerge from such darkness, and what part of him was left behind in the jungle.