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We Have a Library in Mind: An Extraordinary Survival Exercise in a Second World War Japanese Camp

We Have a Library in Mind: An Extraordinary Survival Exercise in a Second World War Japanese Camp

Alexander, Lucy
Alexander, L. C.

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Biographies GeneralArmed Forces

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ISBN10: 1398117870
ISBN13: 9781398117877
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Published: Mar 15 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

The Imperial War Museum archived Anthony Smelt's personal papers because he spent three years of the Second World War interned in Batu Lintang, a camp in Borneo. He had been working as a civil servant in British North Borneo until the Japanese invaded at the beginning of 1942. In those years of captivity, he was an active member of the camp, documenting the diet of his fellow internees and contributing to various aspects of their lives. He was later awarded an OBE for his services during internment, when POWs and civilian internees alike endured food shortages, disease, forced labour, brutal treatment, and lack of adequate clothing and living quarters. Of the approximately 2,000 British POWs held at Batu Lintang, over two-thirds died during or as a result of their captivity.

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