About the Book: Building the Siam Burma Railway During World War-Ii
No subject created so much controversy during and after the Pacific war as the
Japanese treatment of the Allied Prisoners of War (P.O.W.) in flagrant violation
of the Geneva Convention. Whether it was due to the racial war carried out by
the Japanese or was the outcome of the mistaken value of "Bushido" the question
has never been resolved. The harsh and brutal treatment of the P.O.W. was fully
demonstrated, when the Japanese decided to utilize them for the construction of
Siam-Burma railway. Driven like slaves and with semi-starvation diet, the Allied
P.O.W. were left with