Han Samethini Remembered (The story of Frank's younger brother, Henri Samethini)
Prisoners of War of the Japanese 1942-1945
Center for Research, Allied POWs Under the Japanese
Prisoner of War Camp #1, Fukuoka, Japan - Wes Injerd's Site
COFEPOW - Children (& families) of Far East Prisoners of War
De Birma Spoorlijn (The Burma Railway) - Dutch web site
The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942
Dutch East Indies - Elizabeth Van Kampen's personal account of the Japanese occupation
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Books
I'm One of the Lucky Ones: I Came Home Alive, by Raymond C. Heimbuch (Heimbuch, captured in the Philippines, was at Yokkaichi and Toyama camps. To order an autographed copy of his book, e-mail him at rayheimbuch@msn.com)
We Volunteered: A Biography of Carl Robert Ruse, by Timothy C. Ruse (Ruse was an American POW at Yokkaichi). To order a copy of this book, click here.
Prisoners of the Japanese, by Gavan Daws (A searing, intensively researched account of the Far East POW experience. Frank Samethini was one of the many hundreds of ex-POWs interviewed by the author)
To End All Wars, by Ernest Gordon (Gordon, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was an inmate at Chungkai)
Prisoner on the Kwai, by Basil Peacock
Foo: A Japanese-American Prisoner of the Rising Sun, by Frank Fujita
The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949, edited by Jan A. Krancher
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Films and Documentaries
To End All Wars (A movie loosely based on Ernest Gordon's book of the same name. Gives a much more accurate picture of Burma Railway conditions than The Bridge on the River Kwai)
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