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03602aam a2200493 i 4500 001 9891AF0C580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170720t20182018enka 000 0deng 010 $a 2017021724 020 $a 1350024120 020 $a 9781350024120 035 $a (OCoLC)961408925 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d OCLCQ $d GRU $d YDX $d OCLCO $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-io--- 050 00 $a D805.I55 $b O45 2018 082 00 $a 940.54/725209232105981 $2 23 084 $a BIO026000 $a HIS048000 $a HIS027100 $a HIS015000 $a BIO026000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Oliver, Lizzie, $e author. 245 10 $a Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway : $b narratives of history and memory / $c Lizzie Oliver. 264 1 $a London, UK ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, $c 2018. 300 $a xix, 169 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a War, culture and society 520 $a "Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway is the first book to detail the experiences of British former prisoners of war (POWs) who were forced to construct a railway across Sumatra during the Japanese occupation. It is also the first study to be undertaken of the life-writing of POWs held captive by the Japanese during the Second World War, and the transgenerational responses in Britain to this period of captivity. This book brings to light previously unpublished materials, including: âʺ Exceptionally rare and detailed diaries, notebooks and letters from the railway âʺ Memoirs from Sumatra, including detailed recollections and post-war statements written by key personnel on the railway, such as Medical Officers and interpreters âʺ Remarkable original artwork created by POWs on Sumatra âʺ Contemporaneous photographs taken inside the camps Employing theories of life-writing, memory and war representation, including transgenerational transmission, Lizzie Oliver focuses particularly on what these documents can tell us about how former POWs tried to share, preserve and make sense of their experiences. It is a wholly original study that is of great value to Second World War scholars and anyone interested in 20th-century Southeast Asian history or war and memory."-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "An exploration of the prisoner of war experience on the Sumatra railway, and its legacy, through the life-writing of those who survived"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-166) and index. 505 0 $a Building the Sumatra Railway -- Writing the Sumatra Railway -- Guard your tongue -- The body of the prisoner -- Aftermath. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Concentration camps $z Sumatra. $z Sumatra. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Sumatra. $z Sumatra. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Personal narratives, British. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons, British. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 651 0 $a Indonesia $x History $y Japanese occupation, 1942-1945. 650 0 $a Railroads $z Sumatra. $z Sumatra. 650 7 $a HISTORY $z Asia $x Japan. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $z Asia $x Southeast Asia. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $x World War II. $x World War II. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $z Europe $x Great Britain. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $x Personal Memoirs. $2 bisacsh 830 0 $a War, culture and society. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211020910.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9891AF0C580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search