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100 1 _aHovinga, Henk.
240 1 0 _aOp dood spoor.
_lEnglish
245 1 4 _aThe Sumatra railroad :
_bfinal destination Pakan Baroe, 1943-1945 /
_cHenk Hovinga.
250 _a1st English ed.
264 1 _aLeiden :
_bKITLV Press,
_c2010.
300 _a1 online resource (391 pages) :
_billustrations (some color)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"Fifth revised edition including historical facts never ever published".
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [370]-371) and index.
505 0 0 _tPreliminary Material /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tIntroduction: The forgotten drama /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tChapter I: The road to oblivion /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tChapter II: Railway through the mud /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tChapter III: Beatings and starch /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tChapter IV: Maggots with sambal /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tChapter V: The shadow of death /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tChapter VI: Slaving in the gorge /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tChapter VII: The golden spike /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tChapter VIII: Waiting for freedom /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tChapter IX: Silent witnesses /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tA word of thanks /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tNote from the translator /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tNotes /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tBibliography /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tWar Memoirs /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tChronology /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tAbbreviations /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tNomenclature /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tIndex of personal names /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tList of illustrations /
_rHenk Hovinga --
_tAbout the author /
_rHenk Hovinga.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aThis is the gripping historical tragedy of the 220 km railroad that bored its way through the hot, humid Sumatran jungle during World War II. The railway was commissioned by Japan and built with the blood and tears of Allied prisoners of war and press-ganged Javanese romushas. Henk Hovinga interviewed nearly one hundred former railroad workers and did painstaking archival research. The result is a moving book, richly illustrated with numerous authentic drawings of life in the internment camps, charts and photographs. The original Dutch version of The Sumatra Railroad has become the standard work on the crime of the Japanese railroad construction in Indonesia. Unfortunately this indescribable human catastrophe has always been overshadowed by the drama of the notorious Birma Railroad. This work is first and foremost a posthumous tribute to the thousands of slave workers who lost their lives for the Pakan Baroe Railroad. At the same time, it is a homage to the survivors, for whom the war traumas would never end.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xPrisoners and prisons, Japanese.
650 0 _aRailroads
_zIndonesia
_zSumatra.
651 0 _aIndonesia
_xHistory
_yJapanese occupation, 1942-1945.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tThe Sumatra Railroad: Final Destination Pakan Baroe, 1943-1945
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2010,
_z9789067183406
830 0 _aKITLV Press Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2012, ISBN: 9789004248687.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004253711
999 _c10787
_d10787