Bamboo Doctor
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.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of one of history's most brutal wartime engineering projects, Bamboo Doctor stands as a searing first-hand testament to the indomitable human spirit. Stanley S. Pavillard, a medical officer held captive by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, chronicles his desperate struggle to keep himself and his fellow prisoners alive amidst the starvation, disease, and systematic brutality of the infamous River Kwai hell-camps — the very camps that forged the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway on the backs of Allied POWs and Asian labourers. Pavillard's account is far more than a war memoir; it is a profound meditation on duty, compassion, and the moral imperatives that define medicine in extremis. Written with unflinching honesty, his narrative illustrates the ingenuity required to practice medicine without supplies, the crushing weight of impossible choices, and the fragile bonds of humanity that persisted even in the darkest corners of captivity. A harrowing and essential document of the Pacific theatre, Bamboo Doctor leaves the reader questioning not only the depths of human cruelty, but the extraordinary heights of courage and selflessness that rise to meet it.
Author: Stanley S. Pavillard
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 shadow of one of history's most brutal wartime engineering projects, Bamboo Doctor stands as a searing first-hand testament to the indomitable human spirit. Stanley S. Pavillard, a medical officer held captive by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, chronicles his desperate struggle to keep himself and his fellow prisoners alive amidst the starvation, disease, and systematic brutality of the infamous River Kwai hell-camps — the very camps that forged the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway on the backs of Allied POWs and Asian labourers. Pavillard's account is far more than a war memoir; it is a profound meditation on duty, compassion, and the moral imperatives that define medicine in extremis. Written with unflinching honesty, his narrative illustrates the ingenuity required to practice medicine without supplies, the crushing weight of impossible choices, and the fragile bonds of humanity that persisted even in the darkest corners of captivity. A harrowing and essential document of the Pacific theatre, Bamboo Doctor leaves the reader questioning not only the depths of human cruelty, but the extraordinary heights of courage and selflessness that rise to meet it.