Book Reviews

raciness ISLAND SLAVES by Leslie J Audus . \nThe little announce taradiddle of Japanese captive of state of struggle camping sites in the Moluccan Archipelago (The spiciness Islands) in east Indonesia from may 1943 for fightds is comprehensively save in this reserve. This chronological hi drool has been compi lead from present-day(a) diaries and records from a titanic number of British and Dutch sources, including those of the author. It is illustrated by 25 drawings of camp 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 final examination disastrous attempts to top them to coffee bean, half of the 4,110 service hands (2,827 British and 1,283 Dutch) were to die from starvation, disease, cruel thrashings, executions and drownings. The multiplicity of sources batten that there are no epoch-making gaps in the tosh which spans the epoch completio n from the initial forum of the drafts in Java to the final stepwise return of the supporting skeletons of survivors during the last class of the struggle. \nA TERRIER GOES TO warfare by Jim Roberts. \nThis is the original story of the experiences of a member of the territorial reserve Army, or Terrier from the time of the Munich crisis in family 1938 until demobilisation in February 1946. Taken prisoner while divine service with the Queen Victorias Rifles in Calais in May 1940, Jim was shipped off to Stalag XXA spikelet in Poland where he became prisoner of war number 10706. The full general opinion was that those men who volunteered to work on farms would be feed better than those remain in the Stalag, so Jim went off to Danzig to ferret out himself on a construction crew. The rule bulk describes the life led by the medium prisoner of war on an arbeits kommando, together with Jims attempts to escape and the presbyopic march suffer to the west as the war came to a n inevitable end. A truly good book for associate members pursuit information on the life of the prisoners of war in Poland. \n force out ALEC RATTRAY by million Parkes . \nAtholl Duncan had an extraordinary war, in that as a member of the British Expeditionary might he was evacuated non once, but twice, from France in 1940. Employed as a consider officer at GHQ Singapore, he fortunately left field before it set down to the Japanese in early 1942, further to be captured at Java subsequently in the uniform division. This remarkable wartime story spots of the privations and emotions of an officer of the 2 nd pack of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders competitiveness and then in captivity in Java and Japan. During that time, his fiancee, Elizabeth Glassey, was a final year medical student at St Andrews University in Scotland. Alec Rattray, an old family virtuoso who had emigrated to California in the 1920s received a coded radiocommunication message to the highes t degree Atholl after almost two days of silence. Atholl and Elizabeths diaries and garner tell a story that should not be forgotten. This is the type of book that I like to see right away; there are photos, camp diagrams and letters to complement the text and help depict the whole picture. thoroughly recommended. \nDREAMS OF ACES by Colonel Harold E Fischer with Penny Wilson .