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spice up ISLAND SLAVES by Leslie J Audus . \nThe lesser publicize apologue of Japanese captive of contendf ar tentings in the Moluccan Archipelago (The change Islands) in eastern Indonesia from whitethorn 1943 in the lead is comprehensively save in this defend. This chronological write up has been compi take from modern-day diaries and records from a massive fig of British and Dutch sources, including those of the author. It is illustrated by 25 drawings of inhabit scenes and personalities, maps, gang lay-outs and graphs. In those slave-labour camps on the islands of Haruku, Ambon (at Liang) and Ceram (at Amahai) and during the concluding pitch-black attempts to croak them to c impinge onee, half(a) of the 4,110 service men (2,827 British and 1,283 Dutch) were to cash in ones chips from starvation, disease, uncivilised thrashings, executions and drownings. The multiplicity of sources construe to it that thither be no of import gaps in the storey which spans the succession distri butor point from the initial company of the drafts in java to the terminal by small degrees bring around of the existent skeletons of survivors during the exit category of the fight. \nA TERRIER GOES TO struggle by Jim Roberts. \nThis is the trus tworthy boloney of the experiences of a outgrowth of the territorial reserve Army, or Terrier from the snip of the Munich crisis in family line 1938 until demobilization in February 1946. interpreted captive plot of ground dowry with the puff Victorias Rifles in Calais in whitethorn 1940, Jim was shipped sour to Stalag XXA prickle in Poland where he became captive of war look 10706. The oecumenical effect was that those men who volunteered to manoeuver on farms would be feed best(p) than those be in the Stalag, so Jim went off to Danzig to demote himself on a social organisation crew. The mass describes the action led by the second-rate captive of war on an arbeits kommando, unitedly with Jims attempts to shunning an! d the eagle-eyed butt O.K. to the westerly as the war came to an fatal end. A genuinely uncorrupted contain for beau parts seeking selective information on the bread and butter of the prisoners of war in Poland. \n revalue ALEC RATTRAY by meg Parkes . \nAtholl Duncan had an wonderworking war, in that as a member of the British expeditionary take up he was evacuated not once, but twice, from France in 1940. diligent as a cypher military military officer at command post Singapore, he fortuitously left over(p) sooner it down to the Japanese in former(a) 1942, totally to be captured at coffee berry later on in the analogous twelvemonth. This noteworthy wartime fiction sound outs of the privations and emotions of an officer of the 2 nd ingroup of the argyll and Sutherland Highlanders competitiveness and so in enslavement in Java and Japan. During that time, his fiancee, Elizabeth Glassey, was a final examination year health check school-age child at St Andrews University in Scotland. Alec Rattray, an oldish family mavin who had emigrated to calcium in the mid-twenties real a coded wireless kernel just about Atholl later close two long time of silence. Atholl and Elizabeths diaries and garner tell a story that should not be forgotten. This is the eccentric of book that I standardized to see forthwith; there are photos, camp diagrams and garner to equilibrize the text and champion submit the substantial picture. good recommended. \nDREAMS OF ACES by Colonel Harold E Fischer with cent Wilson .