How Long to Read 4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home

How Long Does it Take to Read 4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 45 minutes to read 4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home by Linda Goetz Holmes

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

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“A respected historian and researcher” —Publishers Weekly “A prize is waiting somewhere out there, which Linda Holmes richly deserves for revisiting some appalling realities in a positive way fifty years after the fact.” —Nancy Steffens Seaman, Smithsonian Magazine’s Board of Editors “A tribute to courage and determination of the men who endured it...I ate the book up, and was disappointed to come to the end so fast, and this hasn’t happened to me in a long time.” —Otto Schwarz, Burma Railway survivor and founder, USS Houston Survivors’ Association. ”Linda Goetz Holmes has focused on a most interesting, and somewhat neglected, period of the Allied POW experience — the hiatus between the end of the war and the return home... A useful addition to the growing body of literature on the Allied POW experience in Asia.”—Tim Bowden, Australian author and documentary producer. During the early days of World War II, Cecil Dickson and much of the 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion were forced to surrender to the Japanese. This group of POWs, along with captured American National Guard soldiers from Texas and California, and survivors from the sunk USS Houston, were shipped to Burma and Thailand to construct the infamous “Railway of Death” immortalized in the film Bridge Over the River Kwai. 16,000 Allied POWs would die toiling on the railway, and those who lived endured over three years of harsh slave labor until they were released to journey home. Respected military historian Linda Goetz Holmes tells Dickson’s story of his experiences in Japanese labor camps and his determined plan to survive and return to a normal life. Amazing photographs, taken secretly by other prisoners, and personal letters help chronicle this dark chapter in the history of Allied troops in the Pacific.

How long is 4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home?

4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home by Linda Goetz Holmes is 449 pages long, and a total of 116,291 words.

This makes it 152% the length of the average book. It also has 142% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read 4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 35 minutes to read 4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home aloud.

What Reading Level is 4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home?

4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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