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Hell's Heroes - Roger Maynard

Hell's Heroes

By: Roger Maynard

Paperback | 1 March 2010

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Hell′s Heroes is the story of the POW camp that never was - so dubbed by one old soldier because the atrocities that occurred there went largely unreported at the time. For while the Burma-Thai railway, the Bataan death march and events at Changi and in many other parts of Asia became synonymous with Japanese brutality, most of the camps which were set up to provide slave labour for the enemy military machine at home were slowly forgotten in the aftermath of World War II. Yet the experiences of those who found themselves imprisoned in Japanese camps like the notorious 4-B provided a measure of horror to match some of the world′s most notorious war crimes.
Nestled by the riverside in the west-coast Japanese town of Naoetsu, camp 4-B was the prison for some 300 Australian soldiers, collectively known as C Force, who spent nearly three years of their life there after being taken prisoner in Singapore in February ′42 and enduring a spell at the notorious Changi Barracks. Most of them were from the 2/20th Battalion. Sixty of the 300 died in captivity - more men per capita than at any other Japanese POW camp. And after the war, eight guards were executed for their reign of terror at Naoetsu, a figure that is again more than for any other camp in Japan.
In his gripping history of the men who spent the war in Naoetsu, Roger Maynard draws on the diaries and memories of those who survived. Their recollections make compelling reading, but more than that, they demonstrate a strength and inner determination that seems impossible to comprehend today. How could these blokes endure such physical deprivation and discomfort for so long? What happens to men when death is all around them? How do they keep hope alive?

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