Author: DUNLOP, E.E. [LT. COL. WEARY DUNLOP],
Title: The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop. Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945. First U.K. edition., foreword by [Sir] Laurens van der Post.
Description: Wheathampstead, Lennard Publishing, 1987. large stout 8°. orig. cloth, dustjacket. (xxiii), 400pp. frontispiece (after an original drawing by Jack Chalker, first version hitherto unpublished), captioned monochrome illustrations after drawings on-the-spot, facsims. after archivalia, portraits, on 34 plates, tables in text (food rations), appendices I-IV (Diet schemes, Diseases, Australian Patients admitted to author's working camp hospital, extracts from hospital bulletins), glossary japanese (romanized) commands-english, list of abbreviations, index. Diary as kept by, then, Lt. Col. Weary Dunlop, meticulously kept from the beginning of his captivity by the Japanese on Java, transport to Burma, stay in japanese slavelabour camps on the Burma-Thailand Railroad. His meticulous obervations of Prison-camp life are still of great value. The author was a commanding officer and surgeon who saved numerous lives of p.o.w. Covers Bandoeng, Tjimahi, Batavia, Singapore, Lonyu, Hintok Mountain March 1943, Tarsau, Chungkai and Nakom Patom. Appendices supply information on (:) New Diet Scheme, Chungkai 31 January 1944, Australian paptients admitted to author's working-camp Hospital June 1942 to October 1943, Extract from Chungkai Hospital Bulletin. Author died in 1994 and received a State-funeral. Very good copy.

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