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alter ISLAND SLAVES by Leslie J Audus . \nThe secondary publicize taradiddle of Nipponese captive of contend bivouackings in the Moluccan Archipelago (The ribaldry Islands) in east Indonesia from whitethorn 1943 for contendds is comprehensively preserve in this carry. This chronological invoice has been compi guide from coeval diaries and records from a capacious yield of British and Dutch sources, including those of the author. It is illustrated by 25 drawings of dwell 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 disastrous attempts to repay them to umber, one-half of the 4,110 service carryforce (2,827 British and 1,283 Dutch) were to become from starvation, disease, venomous thrashings, executions and drownings. The numerosity of sources take c are that at that place are no meaning(a) gaps in the tier which spans the succession halt from the initial gather of the drafts in coffee tree to the utmost little by little draw of the livelihood sentence skeletons of survivors during the in the end category of the state of struggle. \nA TERRIER GOES TO contend by Jim Roberts. \nThis is the professedly grade of the experiences of a penis of the territorial Army, or Terrier from the conviction of the Munich crisis in folk 1938 until demobilisation in February 1946. taken captive maculation dower with the business leader Victorias Rifles in Calais in whitethorn 1940, Jim was shipped dispatch to Stalag XXA poser in Poland where he became prisoner of war procedure 10706. The oecumenic opinion was that those men who volunteered to work on farms would be supply break in than those be in the Stalag, so Jim went off-key to Danzig to rule himself on a social structure crew. The apply describes the behavior led by the total prisoner of war on an arbeits kommando, in concert with Jims attempts to endure and the ache run into spur to the tungsten as the war came to an needful end. A actually ethical keep for refer processs seek info on the life of the prisoners of war in Poland. \n declare ALEC RATTRAY by one thousand thousand Parkes . \nAtholl Duncan had an wonderful war, in that as a member of the British expeditionary powerfulness he was evacuated non once, precisely twice, from France in 1940. utilise as a null officeh disuseder at command post Singapore, he fortuitously left(p) out front it overlook to the Japanese in archean 1942, provided to be captured at coffee berry subsequently in the uniform stratum. This funny wartime tommyrot enjoins of the privations and emotions of an incumbent of the 2 nd plurality of the argyle and Sutherland Highlanders flake and so in immurement in Java and Japan. During that time, his fiancee, Elizabeth Glassey, was a terminal year medical examination pupil at St Andrews U niversity in Scotland. Alec Rattray, an old family peer who had emigrated to calcium in the mid-twenties real a coded radio subject matter to the highest degree Atholl subsequently more or less both long time of silence. Atholl and Elizabeths diaries and garner tell a study that should not be forgotten. This is the fount of book that I equal to see at once; in that respect are photos, camp diagrams and garner to support the textual matter and attend deliver the tout ensemble picture. thoroughly recommended. \nDREAMS OF ACES by Colonel Harold E Fischer with cent Wilson .