Of the 44 ships packed full of membersof the thee armed services, government officials and civilians that escaped the explosions and flames of the port of Singapore, during the Japanese invasion, 41 did not reach their destination, and safety.
A fitting tribute, and factual account, supported by extracts from the diary of the author, Capain "Dudley" Apthorp, of a band of scattered groups of servicemen who were formed into the British Sumatra Battalion, whose aim was to cross Sumatra in order to board ship for the journey to safety in Columbo, Ceylon.
However, fate had something else in store.
My dear friend, the late Bob Bush, was one of those men of the British Sumatra Battalion who were captured, and survived the inhumane conditions, during the construction of the infamous Burma Railway, "The Railway of Death".
Not only will the reader be moved by examples of man's inhumanity to man, but also, of fortitude and courage in extreme adversity.
Stuart Forster
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Stuart Forster
A book you find you cannot put down, everyone should read it.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2013