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A World War II memoir of the author's experience as a prisoner of war in Indonesia describes the more than three years during which he and fellow soldiers were forced by the Japanese to build a railroad through the Burma-Thailand jungle under life-threatening conditions. Reprint.
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Loet Velmans came to America after World War II, where he worked for and became CEO of public relations firm Hill and Knowlton. His wife, Edith Velmans, is the acclaimed author of Edith’s Story. They divide their time between New York City and Sheffield, Massachusetts.
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Velmans' compact, exceedingly readable autobiography focuses on his World War II experiences. A Dutch Jew in his late teens when the war broke out, he escaped with his family in a small boat to England. The Velmans then traveled to the Dutch East Indies, where Loet was drafted just in time for the Japanese invasion. His subsequent POW experiences ran him through the entire range of what the Japanese could deal out, from the comparatively survivable conditions of Changi prison in Singapore to voyages on stifling prisoner ships to the slow mass murder that was the labor camps on the Thailand-Burma railway. He is an extraordinarily vivid and sensitive writer, whose sharp memory and acute eye for detail help him render the varying characteristics of the different nationalities represented among the POWs. (His own group of Dutch and Dutch Eurasians hasn't been covered well in English.) To this day, he feels more than slightly ambivalent about Japan and its continuing refusal to come to terms with its behavior in the war. Roland Green
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- PublisherArcade Publishing
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1559707410
- ISBN 13 9781559707411
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
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