Buy this book on-line PEACOCK, DON - Introduced by Derek Jameson: : The Emperor's Guest: The Diary of a British Prisoner-of-War of the Japanese in IndonesiaUK.CAMBRIDGE,CAMBRIDGESHIRE.THE OLEANDER PRESS,1989. ISBN 0906672554.
UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Simultaneous issue in US,NY by same publisher.] NMINT/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,wrap-around contemporary monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj with b/w photograph inset to front panel,with red+ white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - minimal,superficial light scoring to either panel and without penetration or affecting boards beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain red endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xvipp+1-190pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,introduction by Derek Jameson (British ex-newspaper Editor who worked with subject in post-war years),author's foreword, illustrations list/table,17 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w photographs,maps,facsimile reproductions etc. interspersed throughout the text and the book,an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] book precis with author/subject potted biography with subject's contemporary b/w photographic portrait as frntis to reverse,a title page,a contents list/table and to the rear,2pp publisher's advert for other produced works.
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'THE EMPEROR'S GUEST' is Don Peacock's diary of 1276 days as a British prisoner of war of the Japanese in Indonesia during World War II,spent mainly as a white coolie on the tropical island of Haruku.The tale opens in Singapore as the young Yorkshireman is patriotically drinking gin,to prevent it falling into enemy hands. Fleeing on a ship bound for Australia,he is ordered off in Batavia (now Jakarta) to defend Java,but the island surrenders and,after rejecting guerilla life behind Japanese lines,he is persuaded to join a slave-labour battalion.
After conversion to to a rice diet,and toughening up to withstand Nip brutality,he joins a party transforming Haruku into an aircraft carrier.The island of disease,despair and death is run by a half-crazed Nip sergeant as his own little kingdom.Survivors run the gauntlet of American bombers and submarines to regain Java.The author is bound for Indo-China when the Allies blocked the Seas and he ends his war in Singapore.
Donald Peacock was born at Stapleton,N. Yorks., in 1919,and educated at Darlington Grammar School in County Durham.His career as a trainee journalist on the 'Northern Despatch' was interrupted when he was called up for World War II a week before Chamberlain even blew the whistle.
After his years as a guest of the Emperor,he returned to journalism,retiring in 1984 as deputy night editor at the 'Daily Mirror's Manchester office.Don Peacock married in 1948, and has a son and a daughter.His first wife died in 1976.He now lives with his second wife in Cheshire (then 1989).
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