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Originally published in 1995, the autobiography of an engineer who was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942, and was set to work on the Japanese Railway of Death. Includes recollections of the experience of meeting one of his Japanese persecutors again in 1992.
Author
Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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At the age of nineteen, Glasgow-born John McCallum signed up as a Supplementary Reservist in the Signal Corps. A little over a year later, he was in France, working frantically to set up communication lines as Europe once more hurtled towards war. Wounded and captured at Boulogne, he was sent to the notorious Stalag VIIIB prison camp, together with his brother, Jimmy, and friend Joe Harkin. Ingenious and resourceful, the three men set about planning...
3) Unbroken
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Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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After an agonising delay, a young lieutenant finally bobbed to the surface and struggled aboard a life raft. So begins one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. The lieutenant?s name was Louis Zamperini. As a boy, he turned to petty crime until he discovered a remarkable talent for running, which took him to the Berlin Olympics. But as war loomed, he joined up and was soon embroiled in the ferocious battle for the Pacific. Now...
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