BOOKS ABOUT  THE  BURMA-THAI  RAILROAD

A LIFE FOR EVERY SLEEPER: Hugh Clarke; Allen & Unwin 1986

A THOUSAND CUPS OF RICE: Kyle Thompson; Eakin Press 1994

ALL MEN BACK-ALL ONE BIG MISTAKE: W.A. (Bill) Bee; Jerboa-Redcap Books 1999

AND ALL THE TRUMPETS: Donald Smith; Panther Books 1958

AND THE DAWN CAME UP LIKE THUNDER: Leo Rawlings; Chapman 1972

ATTENTION FOOL!: William Weissinger (USS HOUSTON survivor); Eakin Press 1998

BAMBOO AND BUSHIDO: A. G. Allbury; Robert Hale Ltd. 1955

BEHIND BAMBOO: Rohan Rivett; Angus Robertson 1957 Marcello; Scholarly Resources Inc. 1992

BUILDING THE DEATH RAILWAY:  Robert S. LaForte and Ronald E .

BURMA RAILWAY ARTIST:  Jack Chalker; Leo Cooper London 1994

CAPTIVE OF THE KWAE: Micool Brooke; Merman Books Ltd. Bangkok 1995

CHANGI PHOTOGRAPHER:  Tim Bowden; William Collins Pty. 1984

CHAPLAIN ON THE RIVER KWAI: Chaim Nussbaum; Shapolsky Publishers 1988

FOO: Frank “Foo” Fujita; University of North Texas Press 1993

“G’ STRINGS AND BANGKOK BOWLERS: Douglas Harris; Globe Press 1978

HODIO: Clarence N. Day; ICS Books Inc 1984

HONOR BY FIRE/JAPANESE AMERICANS AT WAR IN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC: Lyn Crost Presidio 1994

INTO THE SMOTHER: Ray Parkin; Hogarth Press 1963 (follows the survivors of HMAS Perth into captivity)

KURA: Cornel Lumiere; Jacaranda Press 1966

LEST WE FORGET: Fred Seiker; Record Printers Ltd. 1996

LAST MAN OUT:  H. Robert Charles; Eakin Press 1988

LINE OF LOST LIVES: J. S. Cosford; Gryphon Books 1989

MIRACLE ON THE RIVER KWAI: Ernest Gordon: Fontana Books 1963

NIPPON VERY SORRY - MANY MEN MUST DIE: Submission to the United Nations Commision of Human Rights by the Queensland Ex-POW Reparation Committee.  Detailed description of the POW camps, work and atrocities on the Burma/Thai Death Railroad with testimony by POW’s and POW doctors.

NIPPON’S GUEST: Ted Anderson-Robin Rowe; Devonshire House 1995

NO TIME FOR GEISHAS: Goeffrey Adams; Leo Cooper 1972

ONE FOR EVERY SLEEPER:  Jeffrey English; Robert Hale London 1989

ONE GOD, TOO MANY DEVILS: Arthur Lane; Crysanthemum Publishing House 1989

OUR DAYS WERE YEARS: Horace Teel; Nortex Press 1978

PRISONERS OF WAR/HISTORY OF THE “LOST BATTALION”: Clyde Fillmore; Nortex Offset Inc 1973

PRISONERS OF WAR: W. Mason; Well. N.Z. Br. Dept Internal Affairs

PRISONERS OF WAR: Ronald H. Bailey; Time-Life 1981

PRISONERS OF WAR: (Australians Under Nippon): ABC; The Griffin Press 1985

PRISONERS OF WAR: Time-Life WWII Series 1981

PRISONERS OF WAR: Hugh Clarke, Colin Burgess, Russell Braddon; Time-Life Books of Australia 1988

RAILWAY MAN: Eric Lomax; W.W. Nortn & Co. NY, 1995

RAILWAY OF DEATH: E.R. (Bon) Hall; Graphic Books 1981

RAILROAD TO BURMA: James Boyle; Allen & Unwin  1990

RETURN FROM THE RIVER KWAI: Joan and Clay Blair, Jr. Simon and Schuster 1979

RIVER KWAI RAILWAY: Clifford Kinvig; Brassey’s U.K.  1992

SHIP OF GHOSTS: James D .  Hornfischer; Bantam Dell Books 2006

SINGAPORE AND BEYOND: Story of the 20/20 Battalion, Don Wall 1985

SLAVES OF THE SONS OF HEAVEN: Roy H. Whitecross; Dymock 1953

SURVIVAL IN JAPANESE POW CAMPS WITH CHANSKOL AND BASKET: Airman Ernest G. Darch Stweart Publishing & Printing 2004

SWEET KWAI, RUN SOFTLY: Stephen Alexander; Merriots Press 1996

THE ALBERT COATES STORY: A.Coates & N. Rosenthal; Hyland House 1977

THE BAMBOO EXPRESS: Benjamin Dunn; Adams Press 1979

THE BLUE HAZE:  Leslie Hall; A.S. Sutton & Co.  1985

THE BRAVE JAPENESE: Kenneth Harrison; Angus Robertson 1967

THE BRITISH SUMATRA BATTALION:  A.A. Apthorp; The  Book Guild Ltd. Lewes, Sussex, 1988

THE BURMA-SIAM RAILWAY: Dr Robert Hardie; Imperial War Museum 1984

THE FLAME OF FREEDOM:  Robert Hamond, Leo Cooper - London 1988
Story of the only successful escape from the railroad

THE LOST BATTALION: Hollis G. Allen; Herald Publishing Co  1963

THE MAN BEHIND THE BRIDGE:  Peter N. Davies; The Athlone Press  1991

THE MIKADOS GUESTS:  Arthur Bancroft; Patterson Printing Press Ltd.  1944

THE NAKED ISLAND:  Russell Braddon; Doubleday & Co  1953

THE SWORD AND THE BLOSSOM: Ray Parkin; Angus & Robertson  1970

THE TUB:  Hugh V. Clarke; Corgi Books  1976

THE WAR DIARIES OF WEARY DUNLOP:  E. E. Dunlop; Nelson Publishers 1986

TO THE KWAI AND BACK: Ronald Searle; The Atlantic Monthly Press 1986

TOWARDS THE SETTING SUN: James Bradley; Phillimore & Co  1982

TWICE THEIR PRISONER:  Wally Summons; Oxford Press 1946

UNJUST ENRICHMENT: Linda Goetz Holmes Stacpole Books 2001

4000 BOWLS OF RICE:  Linda Goetz Holmes; Allen & Unwin 1993.

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