Buy this book on-line McEWAN, JAMES: : THE REMORSELESS ROAD - SINGAPORE to NAGASAKIUK.SHREWSBURY.AIRLIFE PUBLISHING LTD.,1997. ISBN 1853108863.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NMINT/NMINT.
Colour pictorial dw/dj.Black paper-covered bds with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white eps.Fore-edges and contents pristine.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 298pp includes foreword,notes on place names;b/w map,8pp b/w photographs, appendices(3) and an index.
An RAF Officer's account of capture and the Japanese prison camps in WW2.This is the compelling and at times harrowing account of the author's experiences whilst
serving in the RAF during WW2.His autobiography recounts his posting to the Far East,where he served alongside those resolute airmen who fought the Japanese against all odds and to the bitter end, the survivors eventually laying down their
arms.Then follows his account of the ordeal and humiliation of imprisonment for
the last three-and-a-half years of the war,with only the atomic bombs putting an end to their plight.This is a story that had to be told.It records events in that momentous conflict in the Far East fifty years ago: events that should never be forgotten.
The book is split into three sections, detailing the main events the author experienced during the war.After joining the RAF at the beginning of the war,he was posted to Singapore,where he served as an Intelligence Officer and was witness to the loss of half his squadrons' strength in the Battle of Endau.In 1942 he was dispatched as King's Messenger to Java
with classified documents.There,his comrades faced impossible odds against the Japanese,eventually launching a last desperate sortie.Finally,they were forced
to submit to the mortifying ritual of laying down their arms.Transformed immediately from airmen to prisoners,the men still managed to retain their dignity and defiance despite their treatment and the conditions they were forced to endure.
They were brutally beaten to extract information (which they refused to divulge) and forced to toil in tunnels in Honshu where conditions were harsh and starvation shrunk their bodies.The death-rate was high,and even time would never heal the wounds to their bodies and minds.
The atomic bombs brought eventual release and McEwan returned home,a different man.
This book documents events that will fascinate and disturb.
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