Behind Bamboo
  • Published: 31 March 2003
  • ISBN: 9780143001751
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 420
  • RRP: $27.99
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Behind Bamboo is unflinching in its honesty and haunting in its realism. It is a vivid, compelling testament to the Australians' will to survive and their unassailable spirit in the face of the most callous inhumanity.

Foreword by Weary Dunlop.

The bestselling memoir of life as an Australian POW on the notorious Thai-Burma railway.

Rohan Rivett was a journalist in Singapore when it fell to the Japanese in 1942. He escaped south – across the treacherous Bangka Strait – to Indonesia, but was soon captured and became just one of thousands of POWs struggling for existence in a Japanese camp. The struggle was to last for more than three years.
Behind Bamboo is unflinching in its honesty and haunting in its realism. It is a vivid, compelling testament to the Australians' will to survive and their unassailable spirit in the face of the most callous inhumanity.
  • Published: 31 March 2003
  • ISBN: 9780143001751
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 420
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Rohan Rivett

Rohan Rivett (1917 - 1977) was born in Melbourne. He was the son of the distinguished scientist David Rivett and a grandson of Alfred Deakin. He studied at the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford before joining the Argus newspaper in 1939 as a journalist. He was a war correspondent in Singapore when it fell to the Japanese in 1942, and survived as a prisoner-of-war for more than three years. Rivett returned to journalism after the war and later became a director of News Limited and a director of the International Press Institute, Zurich. He published several non-fiction books and a biography of his father.

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