Author: Blackburn, Kevin.
Title: The Sportsmen of Changi.
Description: Sydney New South / University of New South Wales Press, 2012. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, maps, tables, pages faintly toned, minor edgewear corner tips covers. 296 pp. Kevin Blackburn documents how sport became a lifeline for Australian and British POWs after the fall of Singapore during WW2. Captives played Aussie Rules football and rugby at the infamous Changi prisoner-of-war camp, and tennis on the Burmese side of the Burma-Thailand Railway. They played soccer, cricket, baseball or basketball, and sometimes their prison guards even joined in for a game. There were many elite sportsmen in these ranks intent on reviving their sporting careers after returning home at war's end, and many of them were successful. There were over 50,000 Australian and British soldiers who became prisoners of the Japanese. This book is inspiring, and it shows that in unimaginable conditions people will do all they can to hold onto what makes them human. ISBN: 9781742233024

Keywords: military, world war 2 (ww2), sport, asia, malaysia, malaya, singapore, changi, australia 9781742233024


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