Captive Memories: Starvation – Disease – Survival
Meg Parkes and Geoff Gill record FEPOW testimonies, medical struggles, and the families who carried them home.
- Author
- Dr Meg Parkes and Dr Geoff Gill
- Publisher
- Palatine Books
- Price
- £12.99
- ISBN
- 9781910837009
- Published
- 2017
Captive Memories: Starvation – Disease – Survival by Dr Meg Parkes and Dr Geoff Gill
When Far East prisoners of war returned to Britain in 1945 many could not speak of what they had endured. Meg Parkes and Geoff Gill draw on Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine archives to chronicle their physical and psychological battles: starvation diets, rampant disease, improvised surgery, and forced labour on the Burma Railway. The authors also highlight the wives and families who supported men scarred by nightmares and long-term illness.
The book breaks the post-war silence, documenting resilience, camaraderie, and resourcefulness in the face of impossible odds. It offers medical insight that later influenced how modern veterans are treated and stands as a testament to those who refused to be broken.
Palatine Books. £12.99. ISBN 9781910837009.