On A Pow's Survival
Author: Ray Parkin
ISBN: 9780522851960
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Year first published: 04 Apr 2005
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback / softback
At risk of death, prisoner of war Ray Parkin secretly kept a journal of the months in 1943-44 he spent working on the Thai-Burma Railway. His account, first published as Into the Smother, received international acclaim for its restrained but realistic depiction of POWs living, working and dying in a Japanese camp deep in the Thai jungle. It was hailed by the legendary literary critic Max Harris as 'probably the finest POW writing in English'.
ISBN: 9780522851960
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Year first published: 04 Apr 2005
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback / softback
At risk of death, prisoner of war Ray Parkin secretly kept a journal of the months in 1943-44 he spent working on the Thai-Burma Railway. His account, first published as Into the Smother, received international acclaim for its restrained but realistic depiction of POWs living, working and dying in a Japanese camp deep in the Thai jungle. It was hailed by the legendary literary critic Max Harris as 'probably the finest POW writing in English'.
