LAST POST OVER THE RIVER KWAI: The 2nd East Surreys in the Far East 1938-1945

After heavy losses in Malaya, many of 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 half years saw members of the Battalion suffering appalling hardship at the hands of their brutal Japanese captors, as revealed in this harrowing, but inspiring account. Illus.