Fighting monsters : an intimate history of the Sandakan tragedy / Richard Wallace Braithwaite. Intimate history of the Sandakan tragedy

Collection type	Library
Author	Braithwaite, R. W, author.;
Call Number	940.547252 B814f
Document type	Monograph
Year	2016. 2016. 2016
Pagination	xxii, 530 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Publisher	Australian Scholarly Publishing, Australian Scholarly Publishing,
Note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 484-521) and index. "An unusual and extreme POW story, the Sandakan tragedy had four stages: active resistance in 1942-3, stubborn endurance in 1943-4, the collapse of civilized existence in 1945 and, finally, the postwar decades of torment for the six damaged survivors, the gradual assimilation of the story, the healing of the damage and the commemoration of the tragedy by the families and communities involved."--Back cover.
Place made	North Melbourne, Victoria : North Melbourne, Victo

Abstract

1. Beginnings -- 2. The opening round -- 3. The long journey to Sandakan -- 4. Prison camp life at Sandakan -- 5. Colonial Borneo and the coming of the Japanese -- 6. Camp life slowly falls apart -- 7. The death marches -- 8. Resolution and repatriation - - 9. Revenge and retribution -- 10. Surviving the peace -- 11. Responses to the Sandakan tragedy -- 12. The journey to understanding and reconciliation -- Afterword -- App. I. Global chronological context of events at Sandakan -- App. II. War memorials er ected to honour those lost as part of the Sandakan tragedy.