One fourteenth of an elephant: a memoir of life and death on the Burma-Thailand railway

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A memoir of life and death on the Burma-Thailand Railway.Four and a half days after being transported out of Singapore in a steel goods train in October 1942, prisoner of war Denys Peek found himself in Siam, and a part of the labour force destined for the project that was later to be known as the Thai-Burma death railway.Together with his brother, Ron, and contingents from the Australian and British armies and Volunteer units, among others…

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