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Roy Mills Published by R M Mills, 11 Freyberg Street, New Lambton, NSW 2305, Australia, pounds sterling26 hard cover, pounds sterling16 soft cover (including postage), pp 248 ISBN 0 646 19473 9
At the age of 26, with only a few months of postgraduate medical training behind him, Roy Mills found himself the sole medical officer in charge of 700 Australian prisoners of war forced by the Japanese to work on the construction of the central section of the Thai-Burma railway. With the help of a dedicated team of medical orderlies, some of them untrained volunteers, first on a forced march through jungle and then in a series of filthy...