{"product_id":"against-the-rising-sun-an-australian-pows-survival-from-changi-to-nagasaki","title":"Against the Rising Sun - An Australian POW's Survival: From Changi to Nagasaki","description":"\u003cp\u003eDon Graham just wanted to serve. But war had little regard for intention.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst the Rising Sun\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the product:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor: Jeff Steel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9781923514287\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublication Date: 24 February 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 368\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: -\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Non-fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53251693707632,"sku":"9781923514287","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/2270\/4189\/files\/9781923514287.jpg?v=1778642431","url":"https:\/\/shop.awm.gov.au\/products\/against-the-rising-sun-an-australian-pows-survival-from-changi-to-nagasaki","provider":"Australian War Memorial","version":"1.0","type":"link"}