Digger's story : surviving the Japanese POW camps was just the beginning / David Barrett ; Brian Robertson.

Collection type	Library
Author	Barrett, David.; Robertson, Brian.;
Call Number	940.547252 B274d
Document type	Monograph
Year	2012.
Pagination	xii, 290 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, facsims., ports. ; 24 cm.
Publisher	The Five Mile Press,
Note	Includes bibliographical references. David Digger Barrett was given his nickname at an early age by his father. It was prophetic: as an eighteen-year-old looking for fun and adventure, he enlisted as a private and served in World War II. After surviving the Malayan campaign, he would spend over three years as a Japanese prisoner of war. It would take Digger more than fifty years to rid his mind of the hate he had for the guards of the Imperial Japanese Army. His story of courage, mateship and survival takes him from the prison camps of Thail and and Burma to the fight for reparations for all Australian POWs of the Japanese.
Place made	Scoresby, Vic. :

Abstract

Pt. 1. The years of learning -- Ch. 1. The early years -- Ch. 2. To the war -- Ch. 3. Retreat to Singapore -- Ch. 4. The fight for Singapore -- Pt. 2. The years of survival -- Ch. 5. Life at Changi -- Ch. 6. The officers' mess -- Ch. 7. Journey to the rai lway -- Ch. 8. Mates and survivors -- Ch. 9. The return of F Force -- Ch. 10. Relative respite -- Pt. 3. Locating the graves -- Ch. 11. Freedom -- Ch. 12. The On-on Hotel -- Ch. 13. Back to the railway -- Ch. 14. The War Graves Commission -- Ch. 15. Trans ition -- Pt. 4. A final accounting -- Ch. 16. The business life -- Ch. 17. Fighting again -- Ch. 18. The fight continues -- Ch. 19. The health of the ex-POW -- Ch. 20. To Geneva -- Ch. 21. Reconciliation.