
Stubborn Buggers
The Survivors of the Infamous POW Gaol That Made Changi Look Like Heaven
Tim Bowden(Author)
Allen & Unwin (Publisher)
Published on 26. March 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-74331-442-5 (ISBN)
Description
'It made Changi seem like heaven.'
There was a place far worse than Changi - Singapore's Outram Road Gaol. For the POWs who endured it, deprivation was so extreme that it really was a fate worse than death.
Stubborn Buggers is the little-known story of twelve Australian POWs who fought and survived the action in Malaya before the fall of Singapore and endured captivity and slave labour, then the unimaginable hardships of Outram Road Gaol. It is a story of how they dealt with the brutality of the Japanese military police, the feared Kempeitai. And it is the story of how they found a way to go on living even when facing a future of no hope and slow death.
But Stubborn Buggers is about more than suffering and brutality. It is also a story of grit, determination and larrikin humour. It is very much about the triumph of the human spirit.
There was a place far worse than Changi - Singapore's Outram Road Gaol. For the POWs who endured it, deprivation was so extreme that it really was a fate worse than death.
Stubborn Buggers is the little-known story of twelve Australian POWs who fought and survived the action in Malaya before the fall of Singapore and endured captivity and slave labour, then the unimaginable hardships of Outram Road Gaol. It is a story of how they dealt with the brutality of the Japanese military police, the feared Kempeitai. And it is the story of how they found a way to go on living even when facing a future of no hope and slow death.
But Stubborn Buggers is about more than suffering and brutality. It is also a story of grit, determination and larrikin humour. It is very much about the triumph of the human spirit.
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Language
English
Place of publication
St Leonards
Australia
Illustrations
1 x 8pp photos
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
391 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-74331-442-5 (9781743314425)
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Tim Bowden is an acclaimed oral historian, broadcaster, and radio and television documentary maker.