- Publisher: Pen & Sword
- Year: 2018
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 230pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 240x162mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9781526736918
- Product code: 529770
Last Post Over the River Kwai
The 2nd East Surreys in the Far East 1938–1945
Cecil Lowry New Hardback
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The 2nd East Surreys were one of the first regiments to engage with the Japanese in Malaya, facing them from December 1941 as part of what has been called the ‘forgotten army’. While many perished in combat or in POW camps and Churchill regarded their surrender as Britain’s worst military disaster, the majority lived and this book is a recollection of their individual experiences, both in action and in captivity.
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Last Post Over the River Kwai is the carefully researched account of the experiences of the officers and men of 2nd Battalion The East Surreys during the Second World War.
Stationed in Shanghai in the early 1940s, the Battalion was deployed to Malaya and fought gallantly to slow the Japanese advance. After heavy losses the survivors found themselves POWs in Singapore in February 1942 after the humiliating surrender which Churchill described as Britain's worst ever military disaster.
The next three and a half years saw members of the Battalion suffering appalling hardship at the hands of their brutal Japanese captors, whether in Singapore, on the Death Railway, Malaya or Japan itself, as wells as on hellships. Many died but remarkably the majority survived to tell their story. Their prolonged captivity with unbelievable hardship, deprivation and cruelty makes for distressing but inspiring reading.
Stationed in Shanghai in the early 1940s, the Battalion was deployed to Malaya and fought gallantly to slow the Japanese advance. After heavy losses the survivors found themselves POWs in Singapore in February 1942 after the humiliating surrender which Churchill described as Britain's worst ever military disaster.
The next three and a half years saw members of the Battalion suffering appalling hardship at the hands of their brutal Japanese captors, whether in Singapore, on the Death Railway, Malaya or Japan itself, as wells as on hellships. Many died but remarkably the majority survived to tell their story. Their prolonged captivity with unbelievable hardship, deprivation and cruelty makes for distressing but inspiring reading.
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The 2nd East Surreys were one of the first regiments to engage with the Japanese in Malaya, facing them from December 1941 as part of what has been called the ‘forgotten army’. While many perished in combat or in POW camps and Churchill regarded their surrender as Britain’s worst military disaster, the majority lived and this book is a recollection of their individual experiences, both in action and in captivity.
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Pen & Sword
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