Jungle Journal: Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-1945 by Williams, Frank

Jungle Journal: Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-1945 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780752487212)

Vendor: Frank Williams
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Jungle Journal: Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-1945 by Williams, Frank

Jungle Journal: Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-1945

$27.95
Jungle Journal: Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-1945 by Williams, Frank

Jungle Journal: Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-1945

$27.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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This is the story of a young Royal Artillery officer, Lieutenant Ronald Williams, who was held as a prisoner of war in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies from 1942-45. It is a true account of the alternate horror and banality of daily life, and the humor that helped the men survive the beatings, deprivation, and death of comrades. Told through the diary and papers of Williams and others, Jungle Journal includes many cartoons and poems produced by the prisoners, as well as extracts from the original Jungle Journal, a newspaper created by the men under the noses of their guards. Ronald Williams was the editor of this potentially fatal publication. Jungle Journal describes the survival of hope even in desperate straits, and is a testament to those men whose courage and fortitude were tested to the limit under the tropical sun.

Author: Frank Williams, Ronald Williams
ISBN-10: 0752487213
ISBN-13: 9780752487212
Publisher: Spellmount Publishers
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2013
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.60d
By Frank Williams
By Frank Williams
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Frank Williams is a retired hospital consultant. On the 60th anniversary of VJ Day his mother gave him his father Ronald's papers, which detailed the latter's experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese in Java. Using these, along with contemporary illustrations, journals, poems, and memories of conversations with his father, Frank Williams has created the book that his father always intended to write. Some of the documentation is held at the Imperial War museum and they will support the book.

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