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Inspiring and absorbing, it shows that in unimaginable conditions people will do all they can to hold onto what makes them human. by Kevin Blackburn. Published in 2012 by University of New South Wales Press Ltd.

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Japanese World War II POW camps conjure up a notorious picture of deprivation and brutality. The idea that sport, of all things, flourished in such hellish conditions is hard to envisage - but the truth is, it did. 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 succeeded. The Sportsmen of Changi tells the story everyone forgot - of how sport became a lifeline for POWs after the fall of Singapore, when 50 000 Australian and British soldiers became prisoners of the Japanese. Inspiring and absorbing, it shows that in unimaginable conditions people will do all they can to hold onto what makes them human.

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Newsouth Publishing
ISBN-13
9781742233024
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Author
Kevin Blackburn
Publication Name
The Sportsmen of Changi
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
296 Pages

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234mm
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153mm

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Kevin Blackburn
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Sports
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Australia

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having lived Singapore in sixties, particularly on the military bases, and having worked with ex-Changi prisoners I find the reading a little incredulous.
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