Across the Three Pagodas Pass

The Story of the Thai-Burma Railway
Herausgeber: Davies, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a translation of the only detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mile long Thai-Burma railway by one of the Japanese professional engineers who was involved in its construction, thereby providing an invaluable new source of historical and technical reference to the large body of literature on this subject.

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A translation of the only account of the building of the notorious Thai-Burma Railway by a Japanese engineer involved in its construction. Yoshihiko Futamatsu's new source of historical and technical reference complements existing work in English. Includes reflections on the course and conduct of 'his' war and his engineering and army experiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9781898823070
• ISBN-10: 1898823073
• Artikelnr.: 38599851

Autorenporträt

Peter N. Davies is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at Liverpool University. A former President of both the International Commission for Maritime History and of the International Maritime Economic History Association, he has also served as a Visiting Professor at Musashi University, Tokyo, and at Shudo University, Hiroshima. He is the author numerous books including The Trade Makers, Elder Dempster in West Africa (1973), The Man Behind the Bridge: Colonel Toosey and the River Kwai (1991) and, most recently, The Business, Life and Letters of Frederick Cornes: Aspects of the Evolution of Commerce in Modern Japan, 1861-1910 (2008). Peter N. Davies is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at Liverpool University. Former President of the International Commission for Maritime History and of the International Maritime Economic History Association, Visiting Professor at Musashi University, Tokyo, and at Shudo University, Hiroshima. Books include The Trade Makers, Elder Dempster in West Africa (1973), The Man Behind the Bridge: Colonel Toosey and the River Kwai (1991), The Business, Life and Letters of Frederick Cornes (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword by Peter N. Davies
Introduction by Ewart Escritt
Across the Three Pagodas Pass
Translator's Acknowledgements
Preface by Yoshihiko Futamatsu
Chapter 1 Departure for the Front
Chapter 2 In Indo-China
Chapter 3 Opening of Hostilities
Chapter 4 The River Krian
Chapter 5 The Malayan Campaign
Chapter 6 The Fall of Singapore
Chapter 7 Surrender
Chapter 8 Sh?nan: Light of the South
Chapter 9 The Thai-Burma Railway
Chapter 10 Preparing Construction
Chapter 11 Banpong
Chapter 12 Prisoners-of-War
Chapter 13 Constructing the Railway
Chapter 14 Thailand
Chapter 15 The River Kwae Noi
Chapter 16 The Mae Khlaung Bridge
Chapter 17 Kanchanaburi
Chapter 18 The Jungle
Chapter 19 From Bangkok to Singapore
Chapter 20 Rush Construction
Chapter 21 The Base at Wanyai
Chapter 22 The Labour Force
Chapter 23 Survey Unit
Chapter 24 Test Run
Chapter 25 Bridge-Building and Shifting Earth
Chapter 26 The Rainy Season: The Monsoon
Chapter 27 Kinsaiyok
Chapter 28 Diseases and Epidemics
Chapter 29 Cattle Drive
Chapter 30 Living in the Jungle
Chapter 31 Soon to the Three Pagodas Pass
Chapter 32 Towards the Setting Sun
Chapter 33 Opening to Traffic
Chapter 34 The Bombing
Chapter 35 End of the War
Chapter 36 Internment
Chapter 37 Repatriation
Footnote
Postscript
End Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.