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y separately published work icon Into the Smother : A Journal of the Burma-Siam Railway single work   autobiography  
Is part of Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy : Out of the Smoke, Into the Smother, The Sword and the Blossom Ray Parkin , 1960-1970 series - author autobiography
Issue Details: First known date: 1963... 1963 Into the Smother : A Journal of the Burma-Siam Railway
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Notes

  • Dedication:
    For
    WEARY
    (Who knows so much more
    of all this than I)
  • Epigraph:
    Disease or oldness or sword-hate
    Beats out the breath from the doom-gripped body

    -From The Seafarer. Translated by Ezra Pound

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y separately published work icon On a POW's Survival Ray Parkin , Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 2005 Z1192436 2005 extract autobiography (Into the Smother : A Journal of the Burma-Siam Railway)
Konju February Ray Parkin , 2011 extract autobiography (Into the Smother : A Journal of the Burma-Siam Railway)
— Appears in: The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing 2011; (p. 309-318)
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Last amended 30 Mar 2012 12:10:15
Subjects:
  • Burma-Thailand Railway,
    c
    Burma,
    c
    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • c
    Burma,
    c
    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • 1939-1945
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