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Kevin Blackburn
Kevin Blackburn has spent 20 years researching the prisoner of war experience under the Japanese.
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The Sportsmen of Changi
Kevin Blackburn
February 2012
The Sportsmen of Changi tells the story everyone forgot – of how sport became a lifeline for POWs after the fall of Singapore, when 50 000 Australian and British soldiers became prisoners of the Japanese. Inspiring and absorbing, it shows that in unimaginable conditions people will do all they can to hold onto what makes them human.
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