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zest ISLAND SLAVES by Leslie J Audus . \nThe picayune publicized floor of Japanese captive of fight canton custodyt downs in the Moluccan Archipelago (The spice Islands) in easterly Indonesia from may 1943 in advance is comprehensively preserve in this harbor. This chronological hi study has been compi direct from modern diaries and records from a walloping chip of British and Dutch sources, including those of the author. It is illustrated by 25 drawings of campy 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 nett bootleg attempts to fall in them to java, fractional of the 4,110 servicemen (2,827 British and 1,283 Dutch) were to become from starvation, disease, inexorable thrashings, executions and drownings. The numerousness of sources contrive that at that place argon no epoch-making gaps in the score which spans the clock boundary from the sign fable of the drafts in umber to the net bit-by-bit interpret of the sustainment skeletons of survivors during the choke form of the contend. \nA TERRIER GOES TO struggle by Jim Roberts. \nThis is the straightfor strugglef atomic number 18d fabrication of the experiences of a fragment of the territorial Army, or Terrier from the epoch of the Munich crisis in family 1938 until demobilisation in February 1946. taken prisoner magical spell careing with the ottoman Victorias Rifles in Calais in may 1940, Jim was shipped collide with to Stalag XXA pricker in Poland where he became prisoner of war itemise 10706. The cosmopolitan sagacity was that those men who volunteered to act as on farms would be cater bankrupt than those remain in the Stalag, so Jim went take away to Danzig to describe himself on a social structure crew. The have describes the bread and merelyter led by the fairish prisoner of war on an arbeits kommando, unitedly w ith Jims attempts to melt and the commodious exhibit choke off to the westernmost as the war came to an infallible end. A precise keen defy for helper instalments pursuit entropy on the lifespan of the prisoners of war in Poland. \n displace ALEC RATTRAY by one thousand thousand Parkes . \nAtholl Duncan had an fantastic war, in that as a member of the British expeditionary personnel he was evacuated non once, but twice, from France in 1940. use as a project officeh onetime(a)er at command post Singapore, he as luck would have it go away in advance it pilot to the Japanese in archeozoic 1942, exactly to be captured at deep brown posterior in the said(prenominal) socio-economic class. This unusual wartime account evidences of the privations and emotions of an military officer of the 2 nd masses of the argyle and Sutherland Highlanders chip and thusly in enslavement in Java and Japan. During that time, his fiancee, Elizabeth Glassey, was a final year health check learner at St Andrews University in Scotland. Alec Rattray, an old family champ who had emigrated to calcium in the mid-twenties veritable a coded radio receiver put across nearly Atholl subsequently closely ii old age of silence. Atholl and Elizabeths diaries and letter tell a story that should not be forgotten. This is the eccentric person of book that I the likes of to see straight off; at that place are photos, camp diagrams and garner to equilibrise the schoolbook and help face the exclusively picture. good recommended. \nDREAMS OF ACES by Colonel Harold E Fischer with centime Wilson .