Last Post over the River Kwai

Last Post over the River Kwai
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Publisher : Pen and Sword
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9781526736925
ISBN-13 : 1526736926
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Book Synopsis Last Post over the River Kwai by : Cecil Lowry

Download or read book Last Post over the River Kwai written by Cecil Lowry and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Post Over the River Kwai is the carefully researched account of the experiences of the officers and men of 2nd Battalion The East Surreys during the Second World War.Stationed in Shanghai in the early 1940s, the Battalion was deployed to Malaya and fought gallantly to slow the Japanese advance. After heavy losses the survivors found themselves POWs in Singapore in February 1942 after the humiliating surrender which Churchill described as Britains worst ever military disaster.The next three and a half years saw members of the Battalion suffering appalling hardship at the hands of their brutal Japanese captors, whether in Singapore, on the Death Railway, Malaya or Japan itself, as wells as on hellships. Many died but remarkably the majority survived to tell their story. Their prolonged captivity with unbelievable hardship, deprivation and cruelty makes for distressing but inspiring reading.

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