The Burma-Thailand Railway: Memory and History.

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(Sydney 1993). Roy. 8vo.Or.cl. d.w. (XII 176pp.). With illusts. and a text-map. 1st ed. NOTE: Between November 1942 and October 1943 some 60000 Allied prisoners-of-war including at least 13000 Australians constructed a railway over a stretch of 412 kilometres from Kanchanaburi in Thailand toThanbuyzayat in Burma. Some 12000 POWs' including 2800 Australians died at the hands of the Japanese building the "Death Railway".