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Sandakan

Paul Ham

2012650 pagesabout 10–15 hours
2012
first published
  • 2013Doubleday · 656 pages · ENGISBN 9780857521033
  • 2020Transworld Publishers Limited · 650 pages · ENGISBN 9781784164348
  • 2012Random House Australia · 672 pagesISBN 9781864711400
  • 2013Penguin Random House Australia · 656 pagesISBN 9781864711417

After the fall of Singapore in 1942, the conquering Japanese Army transferred some 2500 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp at Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo. There they were beaten, broken, worked to death, thrown into bamboo cages on the slightest pretext and subjected to tortures so ingenious and hideous that the victims were driven to the brink of madness. But it was only to be the beginning of the nightmare. In late 1944 when Allied aircraft began bombing the coastal towns of Sandakan and Jesselton.

Worth knowing

ViolenceFrequent

When and where

ThemesWar

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  • Warmoderateunreviewed
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