Backbencher

I am doing some research for 390, and i came across an interesting story of Australian POW's. I have a book that talks about certain events during the War in the Pacific and one story was particularly interesting. The Chapter is titled The Horror of Sandakan and it goes into terrific detail of the horrors that undergo the Australian and British POW's. Many were forced to build what became known as the "Death Railway" which went from Thailand to Burma. Throughout the chapter, the reader sees just how cruel the Japanese soldiers are as they let the POW's starve and labor for days on end. If one could not work or keep up, they would shoot or stab them. In the intense jungles, men suffered from ulcers which festered from being left untreated. I was surprised and upset that this would go on and in the same light this is the first story I have heard that involves Australians in World War II in depth.