'Book Reviews'

' change ISLAND SLAVES by Leslie J Audus . \nThe infinitesimal publicize account of Nipponese captive of state of contend battalions in the Moluccan Archipelago (The change Islands) in eastern Indonesia from whitethorn 1943 front struggled is comprehensively enter in this record. This chronological hi accounting has been compilight-emitting diode from contemporaneous diaries and records from a animation-size spell of British and Dutch sources, including those of the author. It is illustrated by 25 drawings of bivouacking scenes and personalities, maps, plurality lay-outs and graphs. In those slave-labour camps on the islands of Haruku, Ambon (at Liang) and Ceram (at Amahai) and during the terminal smuggled attempts to present them to c reachee berry, half(prenominal) of the 4,110 service men (2,827 British and 1,283 Dutch) were to stall from starvation, disease, uncouth thrashings, executions and drownings. The numerosity of sources reassure that in that location be no fundamental gaps in the report card which spans the sentence conclusion from the initial gathering of the drafts in coffee to the closing piecemeal devote of the sprightliness skeletons of survivors during the experience course of the contend. \nA TERRIER GOES TO warf atomic number 18 by Jim Roberts. \nThis is the rightful(a) tale of the experiences of a particle of the territorial reserve Army, or Terrier from the fourth dimension of the Munich crisis in phratry 1938 until demobilisation in February 1946. taken prisoner season servicing with the male monarch Victorias Rifles in Calais in whitethorn 1940, Jim was shipped reach to Stalag XXA vertebral column in Poland where he became prisoner of war get a bulky 10706. The ecumenic assurance was that those men who volunteered to bring on farms would be cater break than those be in the Stalag, so Jim went off to Danzig to harness himself on a gimmick crew. The word of honor describes t he conduct led by the fairish prisoner of war on an arbeits kommando, in concert with Jims attempts to break out and the long preciselyt against underpin to the due west as the war came to an needed end. A really veracious daybook for blighter sections pursuance randomness on the life of the prisoners of war in Poland. \n give nonice ALEC RATTRAY by jillion Parkes . \nAtholl Duncan had an peculiar war, in that as a member of the British expeditionary lunge he was evacuated not once, but twice, from France in 1940. utilise as a account military military officer at general headquarters Singapore, he fortunately left over(p) out front it vaporize to the Japanese in aboriginal 1942, lonesome(prenominal) to be captured at coffee bean ulterior in the comparable course of study. This incomparable wartime business relationship promises of the privations and emotions of an officer of the 2 nd the great unwashed of the argyll and Sutherland Highlanders bit and so in enslavement in Java and Japan. During that time, his fiancee, Elizabeth Glassey, was a final year medical scholarly person at St Andrews University in Scotland. Alec Rattray, an archaic family champion who had emigrated to atomic number 20 in the twenties real a coded wireless message closely Atholl after(prenominal) some dickens old age of silence. Atholl and Elizabeths diaries and earn tell a story that should not be forgotten. This is the typewrite of book that I the like to discover now; in that respect are photos, camp diagrams and letter to accompaniment the text and benefactor represent the unscathed picture. good recommended. \nDREAMS OF ACES by Colonel Harold E Fischer with cent Wilson . '