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The Missing Years
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 DescriptionThis is the gripping story of Captain Hugh Pilkington's disastrous Malaya campaign in which he was shot by a Japanese sniper, became a PoW while hospitalised in Singapore, then with only one good arm was packed off to work on the Thai-Burma Death Railway. Table of contentsIntroduction; Prologue: A World of Fever and Pain; Marching Orders; Coming, Ready or Not; Into the Firing Line; Bleeding Slaughterhouse; Flies and Filth; A Happy Interlude; Signing our Lives Away; A Garden Party of Sorts; Alive and Well; Sayonara Syonanto; Like Pigs to Market; Dying a Slow Death; A Program of Deliberate Murder; One Step Nearer Home; The Grim Circling of Vultures; South to Singapore Again; Waking up in Paradise; Doom and Gloom; Living Like Fighting Cocks; The Turning Point; Saved by the Bomb; Home at Last; Epilogue Sixty Years On; Bibliography; Index. |
