Download or read book Sandakan written by Paul Ham and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2700 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp some eight miles inland of Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo.