Ghost Armies. Andrew Sneddon

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      GHOST ARMIES

      Fukuoka

      The Wait-a-While Vine

      Andrew Sneddon

      

      2012

      Contents

       Fukuoka

       Prison hospital, Thailand, 1942

       Prison transport, Changi To Fukuoka, Japan, 1943

       Fukuoka

       Alighting, Japan, 1943

       First night

       Prisoners of war

       Signing up

       Off civvy street

       Adversaries

       Proving grounds

       Mum

       I. Grudges

       Invasion

       I. Cruelty

       II. Cruelty

       Brother

       Fukuoka winter

       Burial, 1917

       III. Cruelty

       How I remember my brother

       II. Grudges

       Taking life

       Frugality

       A beating

       Despair

       Lessons

       Gold Tooth

       My brother

       Hierarchies

       III. Grudges

       Body and soul

       Beyond the wire

       Indifference

       The mine

       Bombast

       I. Memory

       Locale

       I. Kindness

       Alchemy

       The abuser and abused

       Night escape

       II. Kindness

       II. Memory

       Dignity

       Anxieties

       Death

       Amputee

       Reflections

       Overheads

       Eyewitness

       Pneumonia

       The turning tide

       Honour roll

       More friendly bombers, 1945

       I. Liberation

       II. Liberation

       After

       Anzac Day in old age

       Tally

       Souvenir

       IV. Grudges

       Author’s Note and Acknowledgements