Captured at Singapore - A Diary of a Far East Prisoner of War (Slimming Jan)(Pevná vazba)

What would it be like to leave your loved ones behind knowing you may never see them again? Then depart on a ship in the dead of night heading for an unknown destination and find yourself in the heat of a battle which concludes in enemy conditions so terrible that your survival in captivity is still under threat?
Cultivated from a small, faded, address book secretly written by a young soldier in the Royal Army Service Corps, Captured at Singapore is a POW story of adventure, courage, resilience and luck.
In 1940, Londoner Stanley Moore became Driver T/170638 and trained for desert warfare along with many others in the British Army's 18th Division. Their mission, they thought, was to fight against Hitler and fascism in the Middle East. But in a change of plan and destination, he and his fellow servicemen became sacrificial lambs on a continent much further
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