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Healing in Hell : The Memoirs of a Far Eastern POW Medic - ADAMS KEN

Healing in Hell

The Memoirs of a Far Eastern POW Medic

By: ADAMS KEN

Hardcover | 1 February 2012

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Ken Adams, as a trained medic, was sent out to the Far East and immediately saw action on the Malay Peninsula. Captured at Singapore he initially worked at Changi Hospital. Many moves and much worse camps in Thailand were to follow. He describes his life, work and the terrible conditions endured at the hands of the Japanese and Korea guards and worst of all, the Kempetai secret police. Illnesses such as dysentery, malaria, avitominosis, cholera and smallpox had to be treated with minimal or no medicines. Starvation was a fact of life. The author was frequently moved around and in 1945 took part in a march of many hundreds of miles which inevitably proved fatal to many of his fellow POWs. Liberation and repatriation are movingly described as, most significantly, is the whole process of settling back into normal life after so long in captivity of the worst kind. Healing in Hell is an exceptional account that demands reading. AUTHOR: Ken Adams was born in 1919 at Alterton-Bywater near Castleford. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in early 1940 and was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore. For the next three and half years he worked as a medic in Changi and various POW camps in Thailand treating everything from dysentery to cholera. Post war, he studied government administration and economics at London University and became a senior government official. SELLING POINTS: ? Outstanding memoir in the ever popular Japanese POW genre ? The author, as a medic, saw appalling illnesses and hardships ? Shocking and moving account of life and death in Japanese hands ? Covers Changi, Malaya and Thailand ? Addresses the often overlooked issue of resettling back into civilized society and family ILLUSTRATIONS: 16 pages of b/w plates
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There have been many books detailing the terrible plight of the Far East Prisoner of War but very few of these have told the story of the remarkable work of the medical personnel whilst in captivity. This is an excellent book and recommended to all military medics as an example of how one of their forefathers, despite his own suffering performed in the highest traditions of the RAMC during very difficult times. - The Medic

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