Many of the prisoners held by the Japanese during the WWII were so
scarred by their experiences that they could not discuss them even
with their families. They believed that their brutal treatment was,
literally, incomprehensible. But some prisoners were determined
that posterity should know how they were starved and beaten,
marched almost to death or transported on 'hellships', used as
slave labour - most notoriously on the Burma-Thailand railway - and
how thousands died from tropical diseases. They risked torture or
execution to draw and write diaries that they hid wherever they
could, sometimes burying them in the graves of lost comrades. The
diaries tell of inhumanity and degradation, but there are also
inspirational stories of courage, comradeship and compassion. When
men have unwillingly plumbed the depths of human misery, said one
prisoner, the artist Ronald Searle, they form a silent
understanding of what solidarity, friendship and kindness to others
can mean. The diaries and interviews with surviving prisoners drawn
on in SURVIVING THE SWORD will tell a new generation about that
solidarity, friendship and kindness.
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