Hell under the rising sun : Texan POWs and the building of the Burma-Thailand death railway /

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Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. Many of them had grown up together in Jacksboro, Texas, and almost all of them we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crager, Kelly E., 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Texas A & M University military history series ; 116.
Temas:
Burma-Siam Railroad.
Burma-Siam Railroad
1900 - 1999
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Burma.
World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Thailand.
Prisoners of war > Japan.
Prisoners of war > Texas.
Oral history.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Prisonniers et prisons des japonais.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Travail obligatoire > Birmanie.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Travail obligatoire > Thaïlande.
Prisonniers de guerre > Japon.
Prisonniers de guerre > Texas.
Histoire orale.
Oral history
Prisoners of war
Kriegsgefangener
Weltkrieg > 1939-1945
Eisenbahn
Texas > History > 20th century.
Burma
Japan
Texas
Thailand
Südostasien
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Becoming soldiers
  • Across the Pacific
  • Defense of Java and capitulation
  • Becoming prisoners : the learning period
  • "Hell ships" and Changi
  • Into the jungle
  • "Speedo!"
  • Out of the jungle and liberation
  • Becoming whole
  • Appendix : Prisoners held by the Japanese.

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