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The Sportsmen of Changi (Paperback, New)
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The Sportsmen of Changi (Paperback, New)
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Japanese World War II POW camps conjure up a notorious picture of
deprivation and brutality. The idea that sport, of all things,
flourished in such hellish conditions is hard to envisage - but the
truth is, it did. Captives played Aussie Rules football and rugby
at the infamous Changi prisoner-of-war camp, and tennis on the
Burmese side of the Burma-Thailand Railway. They played soccer,
cricket, baseball or basketball, and sometimes their prison guards
even joined in for a game. There were many elite sportsmen in these
ranks intent on reviving their sporting careers after returning
home at war's end, and many of them succeeded. The Sportsmen of
Changi tells the story everyone forgot - of how sport became a
lifeline for POWs after the fall of Singapore, when 50 000
Australian and British soldiers became prisoners of the Japanese.
Inspiring and absorbing, it shows that in unimaginable conditions
people will do all they can to hold onto what makes them human.
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