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1,000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant
Colonel Cary Owtram OBE
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| #1668882 in Books | PEN SWORD BOOKS | 2017-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.40 x.90 x9.30l, | File type: PDF | 208 pages | PEN SWORD BOOKS||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Riveting Memoir of WWII|By Judith E. Pearson, Ph.D.|This riveting memoir is a first-hand account, written in 1953, of Colonel Owtram's three years as commanding officer in a Japanese PoW camp in Siam (now Thailand). He describes the harsh conditions endured by British, Dutch, and Australian soldiers in the camp: hard labor, meager rations, sweltering heat, filth, constant ill|About the Author|COLONEL CARY OWTRAM OBE was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery in 1917. His war service in Malaya and captivity in Singapore and on the Burma railway are the subject of this exceptional memoir.||||
After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway Colonel Cary Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, one of the largest POW camps. Many ex-prisoners testified to the mental and physical courage that he showed protecting POWs from the worst excesses of their captors. In addition, it is clear that Owtram bore heavy responsibility for those under his charge and the daily trauma of dealing with the unpredictable Japanese....
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