The Sumatra Railroad : Final Destination Pakan Baroe, 1943-1945

H. Hovinga

ISBN 10: 9067183407 / ISBN 13: 9789067183406

Published by Brill Jan 2010, 2010

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Neuware - This is the gripping historical tragedy of the 220 km railroad that bored its way through the hot, humid Sumatran jungle during World War II. The railway was commissioned by Japan and built with the blood and tears of Allied prisoners of war and press-ganged Javanese romushas. Henk Hovinga interviewed nearly one hundred former railroad workers and did painstaking archival research. The result is a moving book, richly illustrated with numerous authentic drawings of life in the internment camps, charts and photographs.The original Dutch version of The Sumatra Railroad has become the standard work on the crime of the Japanese railroad construction in Indonesia. Unfortunately this indescribable human catastrophe has always been overshadowed by the drama of the notorious Birma Railroad.This work is first and foremost a posthumous tribute to the thousands of slave workers who lost their lives for the Pakan Baroe Railroad. At the same time, it is a homage to the survivors, for whom the war traumas would never end.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sumatra Railroad : Final Destination Pakan Baroe, 1943-1945
• Publisher: Brill Jan 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9067183407
• ISBN 13: 9789067183406
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 163H x 20D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 163 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 907 grams

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Synopsis

This is the gripping historical tragedy of the 220 km railroad that bored its way through the hot, humid Sumatran jungle during World War II. The railway was commissioned by Japan and built with the blood and tears of Allied prisoners of war and press-ganged Javanese romushas. Henk Hovinga interviewed nearly one hundred former railroad workers and did painstaking archival research. The result is a moving book, richly illustrated with numerous authentic drawings of life in the internment camps, charts and photographs.
The original Dutch version of The Sumatra Railroad has become the standard work on the crime of the Japanese railroad construction in Indonesia. Unfortunately this indescribable human catastrophe has always been overshadowed by the drama of the notorious Birma Railroad.
This work is first and foremost a posthumous tribute to the thousands of slave workers who lost their lives for the Pakan Baroe Railroad. At the same time, it is a homage to the survivors, for whom the war traumas would never end.