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Ambon : The truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Aussie spirit - Roger Maynard

Ambon

The truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Aussie spirit

By: Roger Maynard

eBook | 29 July 2014

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Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares.

In February, 1942, Ambon, an Indonesian island north of Darwin, fell to the Japanese army and the Allied forces defending it were captured. Over a thousand of these soldiers were Australian. By the end of the war, just one-third of them had survived and Ambon became a place of nightmares, one of the most notorious of all POW camps the war had seen.

Many of the men captured were massacred, and of those who initially survived, many later succumbed to the sadistic brutality of the Japanese guards. Starvation also took a fearful toll, and then there were the medical 'experiments'. It was a place almost without hope for those who held on, made worse by the fact that the savagery inflicted on them wasn't limited to their captors but also came from their own. One soldier described their hopelessness towards the end with the bleak words: 'The men knew they were dying.'

Yet astoundingly there were survivors and in Ambon they speak of not just the horrors, but the bravery, endurance and mateship that got them through an ordeal almost impossible to imagine.

The story of Ambon is one of both the depravity and the triumph of the human spirit; it is also one that's not been widely told. Until now.

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