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Prisoner of Japan: A Personal War Diary, Singapore, Siam & Burma 1941-1945

Prisoner of Japan: A Personal War Diary, Singapore, Siam & Burma 1941-1945

Searle Cbe, Ronald
Atcherley, Harold

Paperback

Series: RAF & Military Aviation: War Stories, True Stories of Flight, and Survival

Historical FiguresMilitary BiographiesWorld War II

ISBN10: 1909304530
ISBN13: 9781909304536
Publisher: Memoirs Publishing
Published: Nov 14 2012
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In the course of the Second World War, more than a quarter of a million European and American soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese in Malaysia, the Dutch East Indies and the Pacific. They went on to suffer years of deprivation and brutality, most of them failing to survive at all. Harold Atcherley was fortunate enough to be one of the survivors. Throughout his time as a prisoner, from the fall of Singapore on 15th February 1942 until 14th September 1945, he kept a diary, which he was able to bring home with him. This book is based on that diary, along with other diaries and official documents. The original diary can now be viewed at The Imperial War Museum, London.He was fortunate enough to count among his friends and comrades the celebrated artist Ronald Searle, whose drawings have been used to illustrate his text; they give a far better impression of what life was like for a POW of the Japanese than mere words can, though neither words nor pictures could ever convey the appalling stench of disease and death on such a massive scale.

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