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Fighting monsters, an intimate history of the Sandakan tragedy, Richard Wallace Braithwaite

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 484-521) and index

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Fighting monsters

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Richard Wallace Braithwaite

an intimate history of the Sandakan tragedy

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

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 erected to honour those lost as part of the Sandakan tragedy

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Intimate history of the Sandakan tragedy