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One Fourteenth Of An Elephant
One Fourteenth Of An Elephant
    In February 1942,
    Singapore fell to the
    Japanese and Denys Peek
    was among the tens of
    thousands of British and
    Commonwealth soldiers and
    citizens taken prisoner.
    Eight months later, he
    and countless other PoWs
    were packed into steel
    goods wagons and
    transported by rail to
    Siam - their destination
    the massive construction
    project that would become
    infamous as the Burma
    Thailand Railway. He
    would spend the next
    three years in over 15
    different work and
    'hospital' camps on the
    railway, stubbornly
    refusing to give up in a
    place where over 20, 000
    prisoners of war (an
    innumerable slave
    labourers) met their
    deaths. Written with
    clarity, passion and a
    remarkable eye for
    detail, Denys Peek's
    memoir recalls not just
    the hardships and horrors
    of the railway, the
    daily struggle for
    survival, but also the
    comradeship, spirit and
    humour of the men who
    worked on it.
    It
    stands as a haunting,
    evocative and deeply
    moving testimony to the
    suffering of those who
    lived and died there - a
    salutary reminder of
    man's potential for
    inhumanity to his fellow
    man.
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Dear Joan: Love Letters from the Second World War
Dear Joan: Love Letters From
The Second World War
    Dear Joan
    comprises a unique
    series of letters between
    a young airman, Tony
    Ross,
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£16.19
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A Pacifist At War: The Silence of Francis Cammaerts
A Pacifist At War: The Silence
Of Francis Cammaerts
    One of the last major
    untold stories of the
    war, this is the
    first-hand account of a
    conscientious objector
    born into a famous
    artistic family who,
    after the death of his
    brother on active
    service, decides to
    fight the Nazis and joins
    SOE. Barely 28 years of
    age he ends up as a
    leader of French
    resistance, set up by
    Jean Moulin, whose
    horrific death features
    in the story, and heads
    a massive underground
    movement of some 20, 000
    men.

    The book has
    been compiled by Ray
    Jenkins, a distinguished
    TV, Film and Radio
    dramatist from first-hand
    interviews, with the
    drama of raids, torture
    and sudden death ever
    present
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Flags Of Our Fathers
Flags Of Our Fathers
    In this remarkably
    powerful book, James
    Bradley takes as his
    starting point one of the
    most famous photographs
    of all time. In February
    1945, American Marines
    plunged into the surf at
    Iwo Jima and into a hail
    of machine-gun and mortar
    fire from 22, 000
    Japanese. After climbing
    through a hellish
    landscape and on to the
    island's highest peak,
    six men were photographed
    raising the stars and
    stripes. One of those
    soldiers was the author's
    father, John Bradley. He
    never spoke to his family
    about the photograph or
    about the war, but after
    his death in 1994, they
    discovered closed boxes
    of letters and photos
    which James Bradley draws
    on to retrace the lives
    of his father and his
    five
    companions.

    Following
    these men's paths to Iwo
    Jima, Bradley has
    written a classic story
    of the heroic battle for
    the Pacific's most
    crucial island - an
    island riddled with
    sixteen miles of tunnels
    and defended by Japanese
    soldiers determined to
    fight to the death. In
    the thirty-six days of
    fighting, almost
    fifty-thousand men lost
    their lives.

    Above
    all a human - and
    personal - story, few
    books have captured so
    brilliantly or so
    movingly the complexity
    of war and its aftermath
    and the true meaning of
    heroism.
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One Fourteenth Of An Elephant
One Fourteenth Of An Elephant
    In February 1942,
    Singapore fell to the
    Japanese. Denys Peek and
    his brother were just two
    of tens of thousands of
    British and Commonwealth
    soldiers and citizens
    taken prisoner.
    Eight
    months later, he and his
    comrades were packed into
    steel goods wagons and
    transported by rail to
    Siam. They were to become
    part of the slave labour
    force destined for the
    massive construction
    project that would later
    become infamous as the
    Burma Thailand Railway.
    He would spend the next
    three years in over
    fifteen different work
    and 'hospital' camps on
    the railway, stubbornly
    refusing to give in and
    die in a place where over
    20, 000 prisoners of war
    and uncounted slave
    labourers met their
    deaths.
    Narrated in
    the present tense and
    written with clarity,
    passion and a remarkable
    eye for detail, Denys
    Peek has vividly
    recreated not just the
    hardships and horrors of
    the railway and the daily
    struggle for survival but
    also the comradeship,
    spirit and humour of the
    men who worked on it. It
    stands as a haunting,
    evocative and deeply
    moving testimony to the
    suffering of those who
    lived and died there - a
    salutary reminder of
    man's potential for
    inhumanity to his fellow
    man.
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£11.69
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