LAST POST OVER THE RIVER KWAIThe 2nd East Surreys in the Far East 1938-1945

Cecil Lowry

Language: English

Published by Pen and Sword Military, 2019

1526736918 / 9781526736918

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Hardback, 208 pagesPublished Price £19.99 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 Britain's 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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LAST POST OVER THE RIVER KWAIThe 2nd East Surreys in the Far East 1938-1945
Author
Cecil Lowry
Publisher
Pen and Sword Military
Publication year
2019
Condition
New
Book Type
Book
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
1526736918
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9781526736918
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