Dawson, C
To Sandakan: The Diaries of Charlie Johnstone, Prisoner of War 1942-1945 British North Borneo
ISBN: 1863738185
Book Number: 38698
Allen Unwin, Australia, 1995. 8vo. Pictorial softcover. 120pp illus. Very good. Within 7 fateful weeks, from the fall of Rabaul to the surrender in Java in March 1942, more than 22,000 Australians became prisoners of the Japanese. This was Austalia's greatest wartime disaster. This is the story how one man survived. Serving with the RAF. Singapore, capture in Java, moved to Jesselton, Kota Kinnabalu, brutal Sandakan, Kudat and Kuching, in Sarawak. His ordeal and revisit 50 years later.
Keywords: Rabaul, Java, Singapore, Japanese, Wartime Disaster
Price: $14.00