Escape From Hell: The Sandakan Story
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In one of the most harrowing survival accounts to emerge from the Second World War, Escape From Hell: The Sandakan Story chronicles the brutal ordeal of Allied prisoners of war held captive in the jungles of British North Borneo. Walter Wallace presents a visceral, unflinching account of the infamous Sandakan Death Marches of 1945, in which Japanese forces drove thousands of sick and starving POWs — predominantly Australian and British soldiers — through dense jungle terrain in what became one of the deadliest atrocities of the Pacific War. Of the approximately 2,500 men held at Sandakan, only six survived, all of whom had escaped; Wallace reconstructs their testimonies and the wider catastrophe with painstaking detail and moral urgency. Published by the venerable London house Robert Hale Limited, this work sits within a vital tradition of Pacific War literature that demands the forgotten be remembered. Wallace's prose is direct and unflinching, serving the gravity of his subject rather than literary embellishment, and his meticulous reconstruction of events gives voice to men who were systematically silenced by their captors. A document of both historical record and human endurance, this is a book that asks its reader a deeply unsettling question: what does survival truly cost?
Author: Walter Wallace
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Robert Hale Limited
Genre: WW2
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In one of the most harrowing survival accounts to emerge from the Second World War, Escape From Hell: The Sandakan Story chronicles the brutal ordeal of Allied prisoners of war held captive in the jungles of British North Borneo. Walter Wallace presents a visceral, unflinching account of the infamous Sandakan Death Marches of 1945, in which Japanese forces drove thousands of sick and starving POWs — predominantly Australian and British soldiers — through dense jungle terrain in what became one of the deadliest atrocities of the Pacific War. Of the approximately 2,500 men held at Sandakan, only six survived, all of whom had escaped; Wallace reconstructs their testimonies and the wider catastrophe with painstaking detail and moral urgency. Published by the venerable London house Robert Hale Limited, this work sits within a vital tradition of Pacific War literature that demands the forgotten be remembered. Wallace's prose is direct and unflinching, serving the gravity of his subject rather than literary embellishment, and his meticulous reconstruction of events gives voice to men who were systematically silenced by their captors. A document of both historical record and human endurance, this is a book that asks its reader a deeply unsettling question: what does survival truly cost?