![]() This railway was the product of horror beyond belief. To have survived the Burma Railway, and to have inspired his fellow POWs as they battled for survival must have been an impossible situation but thorough the eyes of Domingo we see how time and place did not surpass the strength and resilience of the people who suffered it.Ĭaptured by the Japanese, he takes up top a slave labour camp where a hammer and chisel are thrust into his hands and he’s told to get to work. ![]() This reluctant war hero needs to linger in the past just a while… Burma Railway- Thailand Through flashbacks he returns to the childhood and his past now being plastered over the media. His childhood forms his dreams and experiences which will shape him later. This childhood is one filled with a desire to become a doctor, to become someone. This is the man who will grow to become a doctor and find himself working on the Death railway in Burma during wartime. Add on its many remote and forgotten outposts, few were more forgotten and remote than Cleveland where Dorrigo Evans lived” We start in Tasmania where ‘.in the days when the world was wide and the island of Tasmania was still the world. Jerky, with the action moving back and forth gives the novel a unstable feel which reflects the action of the war perfectly Tasmania His father served during the war and some stories can be haunting and challenging but based in fact gives this already epic read an unique insight into a unique time and place in history. Parts of this book area true reflection of the events in the author’s life and history. ![]()
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