You'll Die in Singapore. By Charles McCormac. Hardback 1st edition
You'll Die in Singapore. Hardback 1st edition. By Charles McCormac.
Published by Robert Hale, London, 1954. First Edition.
Good hardback with torn jacket, minor marks and tanning, inscription to ffep, fold out map at rear in excellent condition.
Jacket is tatty and torn.
Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew that if he did not escape he would die. With sixteen others he broke out of Pasir Panjang camp and began an epic two-thousand-mile escape from the island of Singapore, through the jungles of Indonesia to Australia. With no compass and no map, and only the goodwill of villagers and their own wits to rely on, the British and Australian POWs' escape took a staggering five months and only two out of the original seventeen men survived. You'll Die in Singapore is Charles McCormac's compelling true account of one of the most horrifying and amazing escapes in World War Two. It is a story of courage, endurance and compassion, and makes for a very gripping read.
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