Baba Nonnie Goes To War: The Memoirs Of A Singapore Volunteer On The Thai-Burma Railway
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
Baba Nonnie Goes to War stands as a powerful first-hand account of one man's ordeal during one of the most brutal chapters of the Second World War — the construction of the Thai-Burma Death Railway. Roe Mitchell chronicles the harrowing experiences of a Singapore Volunteer, a Peranakan (Baba) Chinese soldier swept up in the catastrophic fall of Singapore in 1942, who endures the unimaginable hardships of Japanese prisoner-of-war captivity alongside tens of thousands of Allied and Asian labourers forced to build a railway through the unforgiving jungles of Southeast Asia. Beyond its gripping personal narrative, this memoir holds significant literary and historical value as a rare window into the Straits-Chinese community's wartime experience — a perspective seldom documented in the broader canon of POW literature. Mitchell's voice is intimate yet unflinching, balancing raw emotional testimony with vivid detail that transports the reader directly into the steaming jungle camps of the Burma-Thailand border. A testament to human endurance and cultural identity under extreme duress, this deeply personal account leaves one wondering how a man rebuilds a life from the wreckage of such darkness.
Author: Roe Mitchell
Format: Paperback
Published: 2004, Coombs Publishing
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Baba Nonnie Goes to War stands as a powerful first-hand account of one man's ordeal during one of the most brutal chapters of the Second World War — the construction of the Thai-Burma Death Railway. Roe Mitchell chronicles the harrowing experiences of a Singapore Volunteer, a Peranakan (Baba) Chinese soldier swept up in the catastrophic fall of Singapore in 1942, who endures the unimaginable hardships of Japanese prisoner-of-war captivity alongside tens of thousands of Allied and Asian labourers forced to build a railway through the unforgiving jungles of Southeast Asia. Beyond its gripping personal narrative, this memoir holds significant literary and historical value as a rare window into the Straits-Chinese community's wartime experience — a perspective seldom documented in the broader canon of POW literature. Mitchell's voice is intimate yet unflinching, balancing raw emotional testimony with vivid detail that transports the reader directly into the steaming jungle camps of the Burma-Thailand border. A testament to human endurance and cultural identity under extreme duress, this deeply personal account leaves one wondering how a man rebuilds a life from the wreckage of such darkness.