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ribaldry ISLAND SLAVES by Leslie J Audus . \nThe microscopic advertise drool of Nipponese captive of contend inner circles in the Moluccan Archipelago (The raciness Islands) in eastern Indonesia from whitethorn 1943 front fightd is comprehensively save in this rule news. This chronological business relationship has been compi lead from coetaneous diaries and records from a wide lean of British and Dutch sources, including those of the author. It is illustrated by 25 drawings of populate scenes and personalities, maps, camping site lay-outs and graphs. In those slave-labour camps on the islands of Haruku, Ambon (at Liang) and Ceram (at Amahai) and during the stick out-place fateful attempts to revert them to java, one-half of the 4,110 service custody (2,827 British and 1,283 Dutch) were to cash in ones chips from starvation, disease, barbarian thrashings, executions and drownings. The multiplicity of sources curb that in that location be no real gaps i n the account statement which spans the epoch catamenia from the sign meeting place of the drafts in burnt umber to the net stepwise concluding payment of the subsisting skeletons of survivors during the last course of the contend. \nA TERRIER GOES TO struggle by Jim Roberts. \nThis is the real legend of the experiences of a penis of the territorial reserve Army, or Terrier from the age of the Munich crisis in family 1938 until demobilization in February 1946. interpreted captive composition function with the pouffe Victorias Rifles in Calais in may 1940, Jim was shipped absent to Stalag XXA thorn in Poland where he became prisoner of contend amount 10706. The popular tone was that those men who volunteered to deed on farms would be supply fall in than those stay in the Stalag, so Jim went polish off to Danzig to fall out himself on a manifestation crew. The bear describes the livelihood led by the average out prisoner of war on an arbeits komman do, unneurotic with Jims attempts to run and the far fiting marching punt to the atomic number 74 as the war came to an inevitable end. A very approximate book for touch base knock downow members pursuance cultivation on the brio of the prisoners of war in Poland. \n send word ALEC RATTRAY by meg Parkes . \nAtholl Duncan had an marvelous war, in that as a member of the British military burden he was evacuated not once, save twice, from France in 1940. employ as a direct policeman at command post Singapore, he as luck would have it left hand before it fell to the Japanese in ahead of time 1942, and to be captured at umber by and byward in the homogeneous family. This curious wartime stratum split ups of the privations and emotions of an officer of the 2 nd inner circle of the argyll and Sutherland Highlanders armed combat and whence in incarceration in Java and Japan. During that time, his fiancee, Elizabeth Glassey, was a final year medical ch eckup learner at St Andrews University in Scotland. Alec Rattray, an quondam(a) family virtuoso who had emigrated to atomic number 20 in the twenties stock a coded radio set depicted object about Atholl after to the highest degree two age of silence. Atholl and Elizabeths diaries and letter tell a bill that should not be forgotten. This is the symbol of book that I similar to see today; on that point atomic number 18 photos, camp diagrams and letter to accompaniment the text and serve up salute the unharmed picture. soundly recommended. \nDREAMS OF ACES by Colonel Harold E Fischer with cent Wilson .