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1000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant [Audiobook]
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1000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B08S7LSS1Q | 2021 | 5 hours and 53 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 162 MB
Author: Colonel Cary Owtram OBE H. C. Owtram
Narrator: Trevor Winslow
Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for moving story but Colonel Owtram's account of his years of captivity has a special significance.
After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway, he was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, one of the largest POW camps.
Many ex-prisoners testified to the mental and physical courage that he showed protecting POWs from the worst excesses of their captors. Of course his account does not admit to this, but what is clear is that in addition to the deprivation and hardship suffered by all POWs, the author bore heavy responsibility for those under his charge and the daily trauma of dealing with the unpredictable Japanese.