| Entry Text: | CHOUDHURY, Yousuf. Sons of the Empire: Oral History from the Bangladeshi Seamen Who Served on British Ships during the 1939–45 War. xiv, 130p., bibliog., illus., index. Birmingham: Sylheti Social History Group, 1995. ISBN: 0952133911.
The role of lascar seamen is rarely mentioned. These brief three- or four-page autobiographies tell of courage and suffering, heavy losses and an indifferent and prejudiced post-war world. |
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