The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop - Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945

An account of Sir Edward Dunlop's experiences as a senior medical officer in the prisoner of war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway. The testimony of hundreds of Australians who were with Weary in Burma and Siam record him as both the inspiration and the main instrument of their physical and spiritual survival. His war was not the distant conflict whom which he and his companions had been barred by the fall of Singapore
but the immediate struggle against sickness and starvation...