Cary Owtram

1000 Days on the River Kwai (eBook, ePUB)

The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A British officer recounts his harrowing years as a POW in Thailand, including his time as the camp commandant, in this WWII memoir. Colonel Cary Owtram served with the 137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and the 11th Indian Infantry Division in Malaysia. After being captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he was transported to the infamous Burma railway. He went on to spend the next three and a half years in grueling captivity in Thailand, first in Ban Pong Camp and then Chungkai Camp-one of the largest POW camps in the region. Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, making him responsible for his fellow prisoners-a heavy responsibility added to the general deprivation and hardship suffered by all. During that time, Owtram kept a secret diary in which he recorded the brutal experience of surviving day to day and attempting to deal with their harsh and unpredictable Japanese captors. It is not only the prisoners who suffered, but also their families at home. The postscript by Owtram's daughters vividly demonstrates the agonies of doubt and worry that loved ones went through and the effect of the experience on all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473897823
• Artikelnr.: 48423475

Autorenporträt

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.