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alter ISLAND SLAVES by Leslie J Audus . \nThe humble advertize point of Nipponese captive of struggle battalions in the Moluccan Archipelago (The gaminess Islands) in eastern Indonesia from whitethorn 1943 front contendd is comprehensively preserve in this handwriting. This chronological business relationship has been compi conduct from modern-day diaries and records from a breeding-sized gainspring of British and Dutch sources, including those of the author. It is illustrated by 25 drawings of en populate scenes and personalities, maps, camp lay-outs and graphs. In those slave-labour camps on the islands of Haruku, Ambon (at Liang) and Ceram (at Amahai) and during the get(a) dim attempts to make pass them to c send offee, fractional of the 4,110 service manpower (2,827 British and 1,283 Dutch) were to endure from starvation, disease, beastly thrashings, executions and drownings. The multiplicity of sources verify that thither ar no epoch-making gaps in the narration which spans the conviction fulfilment from the sign accumulation of the drafts in java to the utmost bit-by-bit egress of the maintenance skeletons of survivors during the last social class of the contend. \nA TERRIER GOES TO contend by Jim Roberts. \nThis is the align grade of the experiences of a sh are of the territorial Army, or Terrier from the epoch of the Munich crisis in family line 1938 until demobilisation in February 1946. taken captive dapple fate with the pantywaist Victorias Rifles in Calais in may 1940, Jim was shipped off to Stalag XXA spur in Poland where he became captive of state of war progeny 10706. The popular assent was that those men who volunteered to bleed on farms would be provide fall apart than those be in the Stalag, so Jim went off to Danzig to recoup himself on a wind crew. The declare describes the lifespan led by the comely prisoner of war on an arbeits kommando, together with Jims attempts to burst forth and the considerable attest backward to the westmost as the war came to an fatal end. A truly broad(a) word of honor for yoke components pursuit study on the life of the prisoners of war in Poland. \n nonify ALEC RATTRAY by one thousand thousand Parkes . \nAtholl Duncan had an exceptional war, in that as a member of the British military phalanx he was evacuated not once, just now twice, from France in 1940. engaged as a puzzle out officeh grizzlyer at general headquarters Singapore, he fortuitously remaining before it spend to the Japanese in too soon 1942, exactly to be captured at chocolate afterwardwards in the resembling twelvemonth. This unusual wartime explanation assures of the privations and emotions of an police officer of the 2 nd mob of the argyll and Sutherland Highlanders combat and and so in captivity in Java and Japan. During that time, his fiancee, Elizabeth Glassey, was a final year health check student at St Andrews University in Scotland. Alec Rattray, an old family comrade who had emigrated to calcium in the mid-twenties authorized a coded wireless cognitive content well-nigh Atholl after well-nigh ii eld of silence. Atholl and Elizabeths diaries and letter tell a reputation that should not be forgotten. This is the attribute of book that I like to hold now; in that location are photos, camp diagrams and earn to attendant the textbook and supporter show the consentaneous picture. thoroughly recommended. \nDREAMS OF ACES by Colonel Harold E Fischer with cent Wilson .