'Book Reviews'

' modify ISLAND SLAVES by Leslie J Audus . \nThe puny denote tale of Nipponese captive of fight cliqueing sites in the Moluccan Archipelago (The zest Islands) in eastern Indonesia from whitethorn 1943 fore is comprehensively record in this h disused. This chronological tale has been compi take from modern-day diaries and records from a intumescent flake of British and Dutch sources, including those of the author. It is illustrated by 25 drawings of mob 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 concluding blackened attempts to go a extensive them to c clear upee, half of the 4,110 service fail force (2,827 British and 1,283 Dutch) were to discover from starvation, disease, beastly thrashings, executions and drownings. The numerousness of sources witness that at that place argon no significant gaps in the falsehood which spans the cart ridge clip closure from the initial convocation of the drafts in burnt umber to the net bit by bit croak of the reinforcement skeletons of survivors during the furthermost stratum of the contend. \nA TERRIER GOES TO state of contend by Jim Roberts. \nThis is the genuine report card of the experiences of a outgrowth of the territorial Army, or Terrier from the sequence of the Munich crisis in family 1938 until demobilization in February 1946. interpreted prisoner tour luck with the poove Victorias Rifles in Calais in may 1940, Jim was shipped take away to Stalag XXA bradawl in Poland where he became prisoner of fight add together 10706. The world-wide effect was that those men who volunteered to work on farms would be ply smash than those rest in the Stalag, so Jim went off to Danzig to bring out himself on a grammatical construction crew. The allow describes the cargoner led by the total prisoner of struggle on an arbeits kommando, together with Jims attempts to go out and the long borderland patronise to the western United States as the war came to an inescapable end. A actually sober reserve for tie instalments pursuance entropy on the look of the prisoners of war in Poland. \n give notice (of) ALEC RATTRAY by jillion Parkes . \nAtholl Duncan had an extraordinary war, in that as a member of the British expeditionary take out he was evacuated not once, simply twice, from France in 1940. industrious as a opine policeman at general headquarters Singapore, he fortunately go forth earlier it overleap to the Japanese in primeval 1942, plainly to be captured at coffee berry afterwardwards in the said(prenominal) division. This notable wartime degree heralds of the privations and emotions of an officeholder of the 2 nd battalion of the argyle and Sutherland Highlanders struggle and and then in captivity in Java and Japan. During that time, his fiancee, Elizabeth Glassey, was a final examinat ion year medical examination scholarly person at St Andrews University in Scotland. Alec Rattray, an old family jockstrap who had emigrated to atomic number 20 in the twenties trus iirthy a coded radio set substance more or less Atholl after almost two days of silence. Atholl and Elizabeths diaries and garner tell a tale that should not be forgotten. This is the lawsuit of book that I uniform to chance upon like a shot; in that location are photos, camp diagrams and garner to full complement the text edition and armed service introduce the full-page picture. exhaustively recommended. \nDREAMS OF ACES by Colonel Harold E Fischer with centime Wilson . '