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For an extended read, you may try "King Rat" by James Clavell - same author of the current hit show "Shogun". The book is set in the same Changi PoW camp where
by paulgerhardt 2y ago
For an extended read, you may try "King Rat" by James Clavell - same author of the current hit show "Shogun".
The book is set in the same Changi PoW camp where the author was held during WWII. The character Lieutenant-Colonel Larkin is based off Lieutenant-Colonel E. E. "Weary" Dunlop who was the real life surgeon using these tools for creating artificial limbs amongst other things and whom Clavell knew and presumably Bradley too.
It's not exactly a cheery read but very much an inspiring one in terms of survival, ingenuity, and moral complexity.
- navane 2y agoThanks, I've read it, don't remember the lathe in it. Awesome book. So much better than shogun or any of his other works from his "trader series". I recommend King Rat to people who need to get back in to reading books.
- satiric 2y agoIt's not specifically about Changi, but you might also be interested in the book "Rats of Rangoon" by Lionel Hudson which is all about the author's experiences during WWII in the Rangoon prison camps (also run by the Japanese of course)