The Burma-Thailand Railway: Memory and History.

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(Sydney 1993). Roy. 8vo.Or.cl. d.w. (XII, 176pp.). With illusts., and a text-map. 1st ed. NOTE: Between November 1942 and October 1943 some 60,000 Allied prisoners-of-war, including at least 13,000 Australians, constructed a railway over a stretch of 412 kilometres from Kanchanaburi in Thailand toThanbuyzayat in Burma. Some 12,000 POWs' including 2,800 Australians died at the hands of the Japanese building the "Death Railway".