A POSTAL HISTORY OF THE PRISONERS OF WAR AND CIVILIAN INTERNEES IN EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Volume 1 Singapore and Malaya 1942 - 1945 The Changi Connection
The chapters in the book are: Prelude to the Captivity; The Prison Camps; The mails that were returned; At home; The Bureau of Record and Enquiry; Three personal postal histories; The cards from POWs in Singapore; The mail to Civilian Internees in Singapore; Mails to those who were not returned; Unauthorised mails; Japanese Postal Stationery; Some went home.
The author combines the general history of the period with personal references from individual correspondences to give detailed context to the postal arrangements for POWs and internees into and out of Singapore and Malaya.
There are seven Appendices dealing with detailed aspects
of the postal history such as cards and covers addressed to POWs in
Malaya and Singapore and Australian Red Cross Society Directions for
Mail.
This is the first of several volumes to deal with the subject of the
main title.
There is a good index and bibliography.
Awards:
Atlantic City, 2002, Gold Medal
Chester, 2002, Gold Medal
Melbourne, 2002, Special Award
"... this is a goldmine of a book....the stuff of history....a
priceless and universal appendix to so many singular stories " Martin
Bell
"This superbly produced and informative book provides
for the first time, a history of communications between prisoners of
the Japanese and their families during the sad days of 1942 to 1945.
It is undoubtedly a very fine book... . " Stamp Lover 2002
"The new book has more than 400 pages..with hundreds of
illustrations of covers and correspondence, newspapers and other collateral
material." Linn's Stamp News March 2002
Volume 2 Dutch East Indies 1942-1946 Paradise Lost,
won a Gold medal at Singapore World Championship 2004, and a Gold at
Basildon in 2004
Volume 3 Burma, Thailand & Indochina, The Railway, The River and The
Bridge, 2005, won a Gold Medal at the New Zealand National Literature
Exhibition in 2007, and Gold at the Canadian Seventh National Philatelic
Literature Exhibition 2005
Volume 4 Hong Kong, & China, Captives in Cathay, 2007, won Large Gold
at ABPS Harrogate 2008
Volume 5 The Philippines & Taiwan, No Uncle Sam, 2009, won a Gold Medal
at Chicagopex 2010
Volume 6 Japan, Korea & Manchuria, Hellships to Slavery, 2010
Volumes 2 - 6 are published by the author,
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387 pages
B/W illustrations
Cover binding: Hard bound with colour dustjacket
ISBN 978 0 9530004 5 6
Publication date : 2002
Price £35.00 + postage & packing
Places & Subjects: Australia India Japan Singapore Malaya
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