Laden, Fevered, Starved: The POWs Of Sandakan North Borneo, 1945 (1999) By Dr. Richard Reid
Published by Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs
An account of the Australian and British prisoners of war sent to Borneo in 1942. It was one of the worst instances of brutality towards POWs and covers the Sandakan Death March.
Includes map of Sandakan ‘death marches’, pasted down.
Dr. Richard Reid Speaking of the Book...
In 1999 I was tasked by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to write an account of what had happened at Sandakan. The result was a little booklet I titled ‘Laden, Fevered Starved’. Those were not my words: they come from a poem by ABC journalist, Colin Simpson, who made a program in 1946/47 about what were by then becoming known as the ‘death marches’ – the forced marches of undernourished, half starving, physically weakened POWS from Sandakan to Ranau. Simpson wrote:
They rested at, this creek,
This climb that runs the sweat into your eyes –
Though you aren’t laden, fevered, starved …
You tell yourself you know how they went by.
This terrible story is why we are here today.
A rare copy
- Soft Cover
- 90 Pages
- In Good Condition
