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Book Title: To The Kwai & Back: War Drawings /T
ISBN: 9780285644205
By Author(s):RONALD SEARLE
By Publisher:SOUVENIR
Format:TPB
In 1941 Ronald Searle was made a prisoner of war by the Japanese, after 14 months in a POW camp he was sent to work on the Burma Railway until May 1944 when he was sent to the notorious Changi prison. Throughout his captivity Searle drew to record his experiences, hiding the drawings, and they have been become to be recognised as among the greatest, and most moving, record of WW2. Searle has described the book as "the grafitti of a condemned man... who found himself-to his surprise and delight - among the reprieved."