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Long Way Back to the River Kwai
Loet Velmans
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Description for Long Way Back to the River Kwai
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BGHA; HBWQ; JWXV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 274.
Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indiesnow Indonesiawhere he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave labor camps, building a railroad through the dense jungle on the Burmese-Thailand border so the Japanese could invade India. Some 200,000 POWs and slave laborers died building this Death Railway. Velmans, ... Read more
Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indiesnow Indonesiawhere he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave labor camps, building a railroad through the dense jungle on the Burmese-Thailand border so the Japanese could invade India. Some 200,000 POWs and slave laborers died building this Death Railway. Velmans, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781611451856
SKU
V9781611451856
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
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