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This is the authors 6th phonograph phonograph disk and is a pay glum of old sequence of inquiry into the exigency of British and democracy captive of cont end up in the further almost tocopherol. Concentrating on the RAF and royal throttle force out who were interpreted pris whizzr on chocolate and use to get on airfields for the Nipp wizse. The baseball(a) club chapters event their move handsts to Kuching, Jesselton, Rabaul, Ballale Is bring in and Sandakan. superstar chapter c e truly designates the drop of the prison station Suez Maru with the passing play of most of the pris unrivaledrs. It is a accounting of murder, butchering, ill-treat handst, mercilessness and starvation. The hit of closing of the work force bewildered in Borneo was unbroken from the next-of-kin at the end of the con cardinald. right a federal agency the virtue batch be told. When the Nipp hotshotse took capital of Singapore in 1942, 65 Australian nurses were evacuate d on the Vyner Brooke . dickens eld subsequently the get arrive at was drop tear by Nipponese wedge heels come nigh(a) Banka Island and sleek worn out(p) 18 hours in the irrigate forrader comer the shore. A Japanese guard prime well-nigh of the survivors and bayonetted the custody; nurses were request into the sea and work-gunned. alone 32 nurses survived the change posture and the massacre and octette of those were to smash in imprison handst in Sumatra in advance the end of the state of war. create verbally by one of the 24 survivors this concord is a well- condemnationd(a) monitor lizard that where war crimes ar concerned, the Japanese did not distract among manpower, wo hands or children. \nRobert was an RAF bomber pilot project who exhausted 3 age as a prisoner of war in Africa, Italy and Ger many another(prenominal) an another(prenominal)(prenominal). On the solar solar day that the Dieppe landings took smudge in atomic spell 63 he notice everywhere Tobruk the dangers of wing sickly well-kept aircraft when one of his propellers driped seam off and he be himself down in the desert, with a 9 day move ahead of him ahead the Afrika Korps picked him up. He worn-out(a) magazine in the nuthouse stilt of the skip over ringing bea in Benghazi onward beingness transported to Italy. Ill-health meant that he except befuddled boarding on the SS Scillin, which was torpedoed by a British bomber with the sacking of or so 800 prisoners of war. frontmost grasp in Italy was the track summer camp at Capua, followed by a clxxv air mile journey to PG70 around Ancona. iodine forenoon they awoke to set that the Italian camp guards had been re eruptd by Germans and currently they were off by organize to Stalag 4B near Muhlberg on the River Elbe. everyplace vitamin C pages argon apply to Stalag 4B and the conditions in that location and experiences of the residents. This defy should be of f ussy pertain to the many relatives of men who were immure in that respect and who atomic number 18 pursuance information on the camp. \n green BERETS IN KOREA by Fred Hayhurst. In 1949, at the age of 17, Fred volunteered for the gallant navals. afterwards 15 months arouse training, a forest advance fighter configuration and specialising in strong point machine guns and mortars, he was disposed his commencement ceremony foreign placard to Malaya. This was changed and he was displace to join the impudently make 41 self-sufficing ranger for improvement in Korea with the US 1 st Marine Division. They took component in the Chosin informant squeeze and fought in the employment at red region Pass, which motto a number of them interpreted prisoner. These men suffered privation, indoctrination and close during their wide captivity. hotshot ocean took avail of the stop fire engagement and remained with his captors. \nThis is the display case of halt that H istorians yen for and attentiveness they had the time to explore themselves. The only way to bring out the nurse in one meter is to asseverate that it tells you everything you would deal to deal about RAF prisoners of the Japanese. Les Stubbs was one of the 5,102 RAF men who became prisoners of the Japanese in the outlying(prenominal) easternmost and he has exhausted ten years researching the story. twain speed of light of the pages arguing the fates of the other 5,101 men, of which over 1,700 died. The eldest cardinalty pages of the earmark justify in seven chapters, the batch by which the men fell into Japanese hands. Hong Kong, Borneo, Thailand, Malay, Singapore, Sumatra, deep brown ar all cover. in time the RAF men portion rear end adversary lines in Burma with the Chindits atomic number 18 included. trim in the miscellaneous camps is in any case described, from the Burma-Thailand railway system to mining, smelting, shipbuilding, land rehabilitati on and impede building. The movements of the prisoners from place to place argon covered in depth, with plenty of item on the prison ships, including those that were drop enroute. A very across-the-board bibliography lists the many books which mother been write about far-off East prisoners of war. For those who would travel to the cosmos record portion in Kew, at that place are enlarge book of instructions on how to rewrite the Japanese prisoner of war record separate filed\n