Ebook: 1000 days on the River Kwai: the secret diary of a British camp commandant

"After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway Colonel Cary Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, one of the largest POW camps. Many ex-prisoners testified to the mental and physical courage that he showed protecting POWs from the worst excesses of their captors. In addition, it is clear that Owtram bore heavy responsibility for those under his charge and the daily trauma of dealing with the unpredictable Japanese. Recollections of his family supplement this memoir, vividly demonstrating the agony and worry experienced by family members waiting back home"--Amazon.com.;Outward bound -- Slim River -- Into bondage -- A poor exchange -- The great trek -- Pastures new -- Promotion and reorganization -- Boon Pong -- Cholera breaks out -- Adventures of the 'Canary" -- The place hots up -- A birthday party -- The stage -- Keeping fit -- Kokobo's farm -- The white slug -- I take a rest -- 'Amputs' -- The lighter side -- Chungkai Church -- The cemetery -- Mass hysteria -- Attack from the air -- The camp police -- The exodus from Chungkai -- The Drower incident -- A new dawn breaks -- Rehabilitation -- Freedom at last.