Haunting sketches of emaciated prisoners of war as seen through the eyes of one of their colleagues are being brought to Japanese readers to broaden their understanding about World War II.
Jack Chalker's sometimes shocking and powerful drawings of life in Japanese prison camps, together with his own commentary, have just been published in Japanese, a treatment that has been afforded to only a few POW-authored books.
Stark images of guards beating prisoners, the various forms of punishment meted out to the prisoners and sketches of the horrific diseases sustained by British and Australian servicemen form the bulk of "Burma Railway: Images of war."