Join Stu on a Special Interest POW Experience Tour through Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Email captions at bigpond dot net dot au and request information about itinerary and departure dates.
Talk about POWs: Stu is available to address schools, special interest groups, clubs, etc, with a riveting and entertaining multi-media talk on The POW Experience. Email for details.
Capt HP Pilkington went to hell and back on the Death Railway in World War Two ...
Using his wartime diaries (used as evidence in War Crimes trials), Stu
retraces the steps of the once-16.5 stone rubber planter with Pilkington's
son. From the colonial era estate in Negri Sembilan, to the battlefields of
Johore, Malaya, to the Alexandra Hospital Massacre, POW camps of Singapore (including Changi and Selarang), to the Death
Railway and Hellfire Pass... all on 3.5 cups of rice a day!
See the past through the eyes of the present, 60 years on. Stu discovers long-forgotten camp sites, and even spends a long night in a cockroach-infested Malaysian jail cell to 'walk' in the steps of the POWs.
Part military history, part travelogue, pure human interest.
To be published by Rosenberg in March 2009.
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