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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => 20th Century => Topic started by: Nosher on 01 April 2014, 05:56:27 PM

Title: Building Burmas Death Railways BBC4 9.00pm 1.4.14
Post by: Nosher on 01 April 2014, 05:56:27 PM
From the perspective of POW's but also the Japanese... :-\
Title: Re: Building Burmas Death Railways BBC4 9.00pm 1.4.14
Post by: Steve J on 01 April 2014, 06:36:01 PM
The Japanese perspective will be interesting. When at Uni our head of the workshop had been a PoW of the Japanese and some 40 years later still struggled to talk to anyone remotely 'oriental' as the scars ran so deep :(.
Title: Re: Building Burmas Death Railways BBC4 9.00pm 1.4.14
Post by: FierceKitty on 02 April 2014, 12:52:18 AM
I hope the programme pays due credit to the fact that Asian casualties on those projects were about ten times higher than Caucasian ones. Ugh, some of us have led sheltered lives, haven't we? Thank heavens.