Last Post over the River Kwai The 2nd East Surreys in the Far East, 1938–1945
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Last Post over the River Kwai The 2nd East Surreys in the Far East, 1938–1945

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Full Title

Last Post over the River Kwai The 2nd East Surreys in the Far East, 1938–1945
Author(s)

Cecil Lowry
Edition
ISBN

9781526736925, 9781526736918
Publisher

Pen & Sword Military (ORIM)
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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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