Escape to Pagan: The True Story of One Family S Survival Throughout the Horrors of the Pacific War by Brian Devereux
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Overview: A gripping true story of survival set in Hong Kong and Burma, as one family struggles against overwhelming odds in World War Two. Divided by war, in order to see each other again they must overcome terrible danger. The beautiful landscape of Burma and the tragedy of war are evocatively portrayed in this haunting and moving book.Hong Kong. 1941. The Japanese have invaded the island with overwhelming force. Leading an attack on Golden Hill, Jack Devereux of the Royal Scots Regiment is shot through the head. A Japanese officer attempts to decapitate him, in order to blood his samurai sword; waking momentarily, Jack kills his would-be executioner. His head swarming with maggots, he survives capture as Japanese soldiers are both impressed and fascinated by his wounds. Alive, albeit in a dangerously precarious physical state, he then goes on to experience and escape the horrific and tragic incident of the sinking of the Lisbon Maru, in which hundreds of POWs drown, or succumb to the sharks of the South China Sea, and he goes on to experience the mines of Nagasaki and the atom bomb.
Genre: Non Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs
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