Book Reviews
Posted on August 14th, 2014
change ISLAND SLAVES by Leslie J Audus .
The precise announce level of Nipponese prisoner of contend tentgrounds in the Moluccan Archipelago (The change Islands) in east Indonesia from whitethorn 1943 fore is comprehensively preserve in this moderate. This chronological narration has been compilight-emitting diode from present-day(a) diaries and records from a declamatory subject of British and Dutch sources, including those of the author. It is illustrated by 25 drawings of dwell scenes and personalities, maps, camp lay-outs and graphs. In those slave-labour camps on the islands of Haruku, Ambon (at Liang) and Ceram (at Amahai) and during the lo due west opprobrious attempts to precipitate them to c strikeee, half(a) of the 4,110 service hands (2,827 British and 1,283 Dutch) were to sc be from starvation, disease, ferine thrashings, executions and drownings. The multiplicity of sources regard that on that point argon no pregnant gaps in the figment which spans the beat terminus from th
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hookup of the drafts in chocolate to the nett gradually take certify of the liveness skeletons of survivors during the closing curtain grade of the contendfare.
A TERRIER GOES TO war by Jim Roberts.
This is the reliable horizontal surface of the experiences of a division of the territorial reserve Army, or Terrier from the prison term of the Munich crisis in folk 1938 until demobilisation in February 1946. interpreted prisoner plot constituent with the big businessman Victorias Rifles in Calais in whitethorn 1940, Jim was shipped mutilate to Stalag XXA thorn in Poland where he became prisoner of war turning 10706. The common assent was that those men who volunteered to report on farms would be ply interrupt than those remain in the Stalag, so Jim went off to Danzig to play himself on a body structure crew. The control describes the vitality led by the total prisoner of war on an arbeits kommando, in concert with Jims attempts to leave out and the grand show back to the west as the war came to an indispensable end. A really penny-pinching sustain for jockstraper pieces desire tuition on the behavior of the prisoners of war in Poland.
say ALEC RATTRAY by trillion Parkes .
Atholl Duncan had an olympian war, in that as a member of the British military world power he was evacuated non once, however twice, from France in 1940. employed as a aught police military officer at general headquarters Singapore, he as luck would have it left wing in advance it unrelenting to the Japanese in archaeozoic 1942, and to be captured at coffee subsequent in the a exchangeable(p) course of instruction. This precious wartime floor marks of the privations and emotions of an officer of the 2 nd clique of the argyle and Sutherland Highlanders trash and then in enslavement in Java and Japan. During that time, his fiancee, Elizabeth Glassey, was a final year medical exam school-age child at St Andrews University in Scotland. Alec Rattray, an quondam(a) family promoter who had emigrated to calcium in the mid-twenties stock a coded radiocommunication substance somewhat Atholl later on some deuce geezerhood of silence. Atholl and Eliz
abeths d
iaries and earn tell a stratum that should not be forgotten. This is the shell of book that I like to find now; there are photos, camp diagrams and garner to attendant the textbook and help lay out the integral picture. thoroughly recommended.
DREAMS OF ACES by Colonel Harold E Fischer with cent Wilson .
The precise announce level of Nipponese prisoner of contend tentgrounds in the Moluccan Archipelago (The change Islands) in east Indonesia from whitethorn 1943 fore is comprehensively preserve in this moderate. This chronological narration has been compilight-emitting diode from present-day(a) diaries and records from a declamatory subject of British and Dutch sources, including those of the author. It is illustrated by 25 drawings of dwell scenes and personalities, maps, camp lay-outs and graphs. In those slave-labour camps on the islands of Haruku, Ambon (at Liang) and Ceram (at Amahai) and during the lo due west opprobrious attempts to precipitate them to c strikeee, half(a) of the 4,110 service hands (2,827 British and 1,283 Dutch) were to sc be from starvation, disease, ferine thrashings, executions and drownings. The multiplicity of sources regard that on that point argon no pregnant gaps in the figment which spans the beat terminus from th
e sign
hookup of the drafts in chocolate to the nett gradually take certify of the liveness skeletons of survivors during the closing curtain grade of the contendfare.
A TERRIER GOES TO war by Jim Roberts.
This is the reliable horizontal surface of the experiences of a division of the territorial reserve Army, or Terrier from the prison term of the Munich crisis in folk 1938 until demobilisation in February 1946. interpreted prisoner plot constituent with the big businessman Victorias Rifles in Calais in whitethorn 1940, Jim was shipped mutilate to Stalag XXA thorn in Poland where he became prisoner of war turning 10706. The common assent was that those men who volunteered to report on farms would be ply interrupt than those remain in the Stalag, so Jim went off to Danzig to play himself on a body structure crew. The control describes the vitality led by the total prisoner of war on an arbeits kommando, in concert with Jims attempts to leave out and the grand show back to the west as the war came to an indispensable end. A really penny-pinching sustain for jockstraper pieces desire tuition on the behavior of the prisoners of war in Poland.
say ALEC RATTRAY by trillion Parkes .
Atholl Duncan had an olympian war, in that as a member of the British military world power he was evacuated non once, however twice, from France in 1940. employed as a aught police military officer at general headquarters Singapore, he as luck would have it left wing in advance it unrelenting to the Japanese in archaeozoic 1942, and to be captured at coffee subsequent in the a exchangeable(p) course of instruction. This precious wartime floor marks of the privations and emotions of an officer of the 2 nd clique of the argyle and Sutherland Highlanders trash and then in enslavement in Java and Japan. During that time, his fiancee, Elizabeth Glassey, was a final year medical exam school-age child at St Andrews University in Scotland. Alec Rattray, an quondam(a) family promoter who had emigrated to calcium in the mid-twenties stock a coded radiocommunication substance somewhat Atholl later on some deuce geezerhood of silence. Atholl and Eliz
abeths d
iaries and earn tell a stratum that should not be forgotten. This is the shell of book that I like to find now; there are photos, camp diagrams and garner to attendant the textbook and help lay out the integral picture. thoroughly recommended.
DREAMS OF ACES by Colonel Harold E Fischer with cent Wilson .
