| Category: | Books |
| Genre: | Biographies & Memoirs |
| Author: | Warren Fellows |
Product Description
In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Bang Kwang prison - better known as the Bangkok Hilton. It was the beginning of 12 years of hell in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, where prison guards laugh as they deliver pulverising blows and where the worst punishment is the khun deo - solitary confinement, Thai style. The Damage Done is one man's story of an unthinkable nightmare. It is not Warren Fellows' plea for forgiveness nor his denial of guilt, but a story of endurance and survival and the abuse of human rights during the decade of a life wasted in leg irons. It is an essential read: heartbreaking, fascinating and impossible to put down. -AMAZON.COM-
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I picked up this book at Bangkok airport yesterday while waiting to transit to Chieng Mai. My initial thought was to present this book to friends as an example of sheer willpower to survive and strength to get through the worst. As I read half of it in the departure gate in Bangkok, I realised why the reviews for the book had said that this is one read which isn't for the faint hearted. As much as I feel that Fellows had left out a lot more graphical details of being incarcerated and tortured, those that he had written about were enough of an impression. Horror, sadness, disgust - you name it - are the emotions that one will experience while reading this book.
There are several others who have told their stories of being incarcerated in the notoriously infamous "Bangkok Hilton" and other similar prisons across the world. It also struck me that a majority of these inmates were either of Aussie or British backgrounds and their crime similar - trafficking of cocaine or heroin.
I highly recommend this book, not with the intention to make one depressed, but rather, understand the remorse, lessons learned by those who had once been blinded by greed and ego of being invincible in the drug trade, and also catch glimpses of hope and strength that are displayed in the darkest of hours.
In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Bang Kwang prison - better known as the Bangkok Hilton. It was the beginning of 12 years of hell in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, where prison guards laugh as they deliver pulverising blows and where the worst punishment is the khun deo - solitary confinement, Thai style. The Damage Done is one man's story of an unthinkable nightmare. It is not Warren Fellows' plea for forgiveness nor his denial of guilt, but a story of endurance and survival and the abuse of human rights during the decade of a life wasted in leg irons. It is an essential read: heartbreaking, fascinating and impossible to put down. -AMAZON.COM-
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I picked up this book at Bangkok airport yesterday while waiting to transit to Chieng Mai. My initial thought was to present this book to friends as an example of sheer willpower to survive and strength to get through the worst. As I read half of it in the departure gate in Bangkok, I realised why the reviews for the book had said that this is one read which isn't for the faint hearted. As much as I feel that Fellows had left out a lot more graphical details of being incarcerated and tortured, those that he had written about were enough of an impression. Horror, sadness, disgust - you name it - are the emotions that one will experience while reading this book.
There are several others who have told their stories of being incarcerated in the notoriously infamous "Bangkok Hilton" and other similar prisons across the world. It also struck me that a majority of these inmates were either of Aussie or British backgrounds and their crime similar - trafficking of cocaine or heroin.
I highly recommend this book, not with the intention to make one depressed, but rather, understand the remorse, lessons learned by those who had once been blinded by greed and ego of being invincible in the drug trade, and also catch glimpses of hope and strength that are displayed in the darkest of hours.
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