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100 1 $aHolmes, Linda Goetz.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94115615
245 10 $aFour thousand bowls of rice :$ba prisoner of war comes home /$cLinda Goetz Holmes.
260 $aSt. Leonards, NSW :$bAllen & Unwin,$c1993.
300 $axxiii, 179 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes some narrative by Cecil Dickson and others.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 174-175) and index.
520 $aFour Thousand Bowls of Rice tells how one prisoner of war prepared himself, mentally and physically, for his journey home after three and a half years of brutal captivity in Java, Burma and Thailand during World War II. Staff Sergeant Cecil Dickson was a member of the 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion, which was forced to surrender to the Japanese in March 1942. His engineering unit bore the heaviest work in constructing the Burma-Thailand Railway.
520 8 $aSergeant Dickson was also a journalist, and within days of his release in August 1945, he began writing a series of letters to his wife back in Melbourne, as he anxiously awaited final transport orders. Drawing on these letters, and her research with many surviving Pioneers, Linda Goetz Holmes paints a dramatic picture of prisoner of war life under the Japanese. Dickson's letters are yesterday's version of the 'live-remote' coverage one expects to find on today's newscast.
520 8 $aThrough his words, the reader discovers what it felt like to emerge abruptly from one day's starvation to the next day's air-drops, and from being in regimented captivity to being in charge of one's own time again. More significantly, Dickson's writings provide a unique glimpse of one man's determination to free his mind from continued captivity by replacing bitter memories with the sights and sounds of postwar Bangkok, and with tender thoughts of reunion with loved ones.
520 8 $a. While Dickson's letters provide the sound track, it is the series of photographs, taken secretly by other Australian prisoners, which give shape to this vivid picture of POW life. Published here for the first time, these daring close-ups of gaunt faces and ravaged bodies leave the reader with an unforgettable personal statement of suffering - and triumph.
600 10 $aDickson, Cecil.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94115629
610 10 $aAustralia.$bAustralian Army.$bPioneer Battalion, 2/2.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94115638
610 20 $aBurma-Siam Railroad.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83201886
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, Australian.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113888
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, Japanese.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148476
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zJapan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010108339
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zAustralia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010108338
700 1 $aDickson, Cecil.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94115629
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