Adventures of eddie fung, the: chinatown kid, texas cowboy, prisoner of war
Éditeur :
University of Washington Press
ISBN :
9780295987545
Date de publication :
6 nov. 2007
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
363 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
On the way to the Philippines, his battalion was captured by the Japanese in Java and sent to Burma to undertake the impossible task of building a railroad through 262 miles of tropical jungle. Working under brutal slave labor conditions, the men completed the railroad in fourteen months, at the cost of 12,500 POW and 70,000 Asian lives.