Break-Out! - The Japanese POW Break-Out at Cowra, 1944 Review
In the early hours of the moonlit morning of 5 August 1944, the greatest mass escape of prisoners of war in British military history took place in the small Australian country town of Cowra in New South Wales.
The attempt was hopeless from the beginning and ended with 231 prisoners dead in the morning sunlight and the remainder soon rounded up from the open rolling farmlands surrounding Cowra. For security reasons little was revealed of this unique and tragic episode until the first publication of this book in 1965.
Hugh V. Clarke, a prisoner of war himself to the Japanese in Burma, Malay and Japan, managed to forge a relationship with a Japanese prisoner of war to the Australians in the Celebes. That relationship enabled the telling of this story from both the Australian and Japanese perspectives.
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