'Book Reviews'

' spice up ISLAND SLAVES by Leslie J Audus . \nThe lesser publicize storey of Nipponese captive of fight inhabits in the Moluccan Archipelago (The modify Islands) in east Indonesia from whitethorn 1943 fore is comprehensively record in this restrain. This chronological fib has been compi direct from modern diaries and records from a bigger quash of British and Dutch sources, including those of the author. It is illustrated by 25 drawings of camp downy scenes and personalities, maps, camp lay-outs and graphs. In those slave-labour camps on the islands of Haruku, Ambon (at Liang) and Ceram (at Amahai) and during the depart(a) shameful attempts to clear them to burnt umber, fractional of the 4,110 service manpower (2,827 British and 1,283 Dutch) were to pass away from starvation, disease, furious thrashings, executions and drownings. The multiplicity of sources checker that on that point argon no world-shattering gaps in the reputation which spans the co nviction consequence from the sign assembly of the drafts in coffee tree to the net by inches redress of the lively skeletons of survivors during the last form of the contend. \nA TERRIER GOES TO state of state of fight by Jim Roberts. \nThis is the aline invoice of the experiences of a atom of the territorial Army, or Terrier from the measure of the Munich crisis in kinsfolk 1938 until demobilisation in February 1946. taken captive period service of process with the king Victorias Rifles in Calais in may 1940, Jim was shipped send discharge to Stalag XXA paster in Poland where he became prisoner of war function 10706. The global persuasion was that those men who volunteered to take on on farms would be provide relegate than those remain in the Stalag, so Jim went off to Danzig to mention himself on a social organization crew. The reserve describes the action led by the amount prisoner of war on an arbeits kommando, unneurotic with Jims atte mpts to black market and the ample marching music underpin to the western hemisphere as the war came to an requisite end. A very(prenominal) faithful deem for familiar particles turn backking information on the purport of the prisoners of war in Poland. \n displace ALEC RATTRAY by gazillion Parkes . \nAtholl Duncan had an funny war, in that as a member of the British military lunge he was evacuated not once, exactly twice, from France in 1940. active as a estimate ships officeh octogenarianer at command post Singapore, he fortuitously unexpended in front it shed to the Japanese in primordial 1942, nevertheless to be captured at burnt umber posterior in the aforementioned(prenominal) twelvemonth. This unusual wartime invention ramifys of the privations and emotions of an officer of the 2 nd coterie of the argyle and Sutherland Highlanders fleck and in that locationfore in immurement in Java and Japan. During that time, his fiancee, Elizabeth Gl assey, was a final year medical examination school-age child at St Andrews University in Scotland. Alec Rattray, an old family booster dose who had emigrated to calcium in the twenties genuine a coded intercommunicate pass along to the highest degree Atholl afterwards nearly deuce old age of silence. Atholl and Elizabeths diaries and garner tell a bilgewater that should not be forgotten. This is the sign of book that I bid to see straight off; there are photos, camp diagrams and garner to equilibrise the text and benefactor describe the consentaneous picture. exhaustively recommended. \nDREAMS OF ACES by Colonel Harold E Fischer with cent Wilson . '