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In Thailand, a ceremony is held each Anzac Day to honour the more than 2,800 Australian prisoners of war, who died while being forced by the Japanese army to work on the Thai Burma Railway. For one serving ADF sergeant, making the journey to Hellfire Pass near Kanchanaburi is an opportunity to honour her great uncle, who was held captive there for two and a half years.
Scores of people have come together for ceremonies marking this year's Anzac Day. Ceremonies have been held locally and across the world to honour the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who gave their lives during the Gallipoli campaign in World War I, as well as those who continue to serve until this day.
Research has long been a backbone of the genre. But beyond the textbooks, there's a whole world of family stories that have not yet become history. They deserve their place in fiction, too.
Research has long been a backbone of the genre. But beyond the textbooks, there's a whole world of family stories that have not yet become history. They deserve their place in fiction, too.
With an extraordinary landscape encompassing a dynamic capital city, cloud- haloed mountains, rippling rice fields, elephant-dotted rainforests, blonde-bombshell beaches, unearthly karst islands set in luminous green waters, and coral reefs resplendent with tropical fish, the Land of Smiles has lingered at the top of visitors’ lists for decades.