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This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but...
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During WWII, POWs in Thailand/Burma suffered years of starvation and brutal treatment by the Japanese while building a railway from BamPong in Thailand to Moulmein in Burma. Keeping a diary of events was a difficult task, not only due to the lack of writing materials but because of the threat of death should it be discovered. Keeping a radio also meted the same punishment. As a doctor and commanding officer Weary Dunlop did both these things. It is from the secret diaries kept by him, and other brave soldiers that we are able to understand the everyday horror of life on the "Line". and many were used to provide proof at War Crimes trials. Weary's diary is particularly extensive, keeping daily entries for almost 2 years "because the army required it". His improvements in camp and hospital hygiene, and introduction of specialised "diets" was ultimately responsible for less POWs succumbing to their impossible conditions. ( )
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To those prisoners-of-war of several nations whose courage and fortitude uplifted me during the dark days.
The many dead are hallowed in my memory and the friendship of those living is one of life's precious gifts.
I pray that ‘they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat’. (The Revelation of St John the Divine vii. 16)
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Foreword:
by Colonel Sir Laurens van der Post
These diaries of Sir Edward Dunlop are of great human and historical importance.
Preface:
I have shrunk from publishing these diaries for over forty years.
Introduction:
My years between the ages of seven and twelve that I spent on my father's farm, Summerlea, about the Sheepwash Creek at Stewarton, coincided with the momentous events of World War I
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Our main CCS body entrained and, bemused by the greetings of civilians in Dutch, were transported through green fertile paddy-fields, large rivers, mountain and jungle to the bracing upland city of Bandoeng.
Postscript:
I remained in Thailand for some time after the end of the war, playing a major role in the organisation and setting up of the evacuation programme for the former prisoners-of-war.
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Foreword:
Who can doubt, therefore, that the detailed, day to day evidence of such a man, recorded in these diaries, is an event of immense significance?
This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but...
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