| Description |
1 online resource (242 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; 2 East Surrey Timeline; Prologue; Chapter 1 Formation of the Regiment/Shanghai, China 1938-1940; Chapter 2 Back to Singapore/the Japanese Invasion of Malaya, 1940-1941; Chapter 3 The Battles of Gurun and Kampar; Chapter 4 The Battle for Singapore; Chapter 5 Escape Attempts; Plate section; Chapter 6 Changi and the Thai/Burma Railway; Chapter 7 The Hellships; Chapter 8 Overseas Camps; Chapter 9 Japan Surrenders -- Homeward Bound; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Brothers in Arms |
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Appendix 2: Ministry of Defence Return Document, September 1945Appendix 3: 2 East Surreys Roll of Honour; Appendix 4: Nominal Roll of the 2 East Surreys as of 7 December 1941; Bibliography; Back Cover |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
History.
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history (discipline)
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526736949 |
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1526736942 |
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