Author: LEFFELAAR, H.L. & E. VAN WITSEN
Title: Werkers aan de Burma-Spoorweg. Iedere twee dwarsliggers een mensenleven; 414 kilometer en 200.000 doden. First edn.(only).
Description: Franeker, Wever, 1982. Orig. cloth, dustjacket skilfully laid-down on both sides. 443pp. Ills. on 6 col. plates, many plain plates & text-ills., many after drawings 'made-on-the-spot', tables in text, chronology, extensive bibliography, notes to chapters & register. An excellent study on the Burma-Siam Railroad of death: the approach, the concept, plan & organization, aftermath. incl. descr. of the P.O.W. slave-camps concerned. Good ex-lib. copy. (small white ex-lib. label at tail of spine, dustjacket skilfully laid-down on boards, small ex-lib. stamp in blank space of ti.-p.).

Keywords: japanese camps occupation burma siam railroad slave labour p.o.w. pacific war occupation forced labour southeast asia burma thailand siam