{"product_id":"against-the-rising-sun-jeff-steel-9781923514287","title":"Against the Rising Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Singapore to Nagasaki -  An Australian POW's Incredible Story\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDon Graham just wanted to serve. But war had little regard for intention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServing with the ill-fated Australian 8th Division, he faced the disastrous campaign in Malaya, the retreat to Singapore, and the brutal reality of surrender after the greatest military catastrophe in British Empire history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCaptured by the Japanese, he was sent first to the notorious Changi prison camp and then to the infamous Selarang Barracks, where disease, starvation and fear ruled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMarched out of Changi to an uncertain fate, Don and hundreds of others were taken on a hell ship to Japan and forced into slave labour at the Kawasaki shipyards in Kobe, and later the deadly Yoshikuma coal mine near Nagasaki. Each day was a gamble of exhaustion, punishment or death - until he witnessed the strange, mushroom-shaped cloud that would signal the war's end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJapan had surrendered, yet peril remained. The Japanese commandant ordered Don and the prisoners to dig trenches - their own mass graves. Could they survive when freedom seemed within reach?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst the Rising Sun is the true story of an Australian soldier's endurance under the Japanese. Amid unimaginable horror, Don became a lifeline to his fellow POWs, using humour, song and sheer will to keep hope alive - a testament to courage found not in victory, but in survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'When the war took everything, he gave his mates a reason to carry on.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This is more than a war story - it's a testament to human spirit and brotherhood behind the wire. Jeff Steel's gripping narrative brings Don Graham's courage and wit vividly to life.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeff Steel","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48566219047155,"sku":"9781923514287","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781923514287.jpg?v=1771872845","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/against-the-rising-sun-jeff-steel-9781923514287","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}