Bamboo and Bushido (3rd Ed)

Description

Title: Bamboo and Bushido

Author: Allbury, Alfred George

Condition: Very Good Plus – Missing the dust jacket. Foxing to the page block and to the first and last few pages.

Edition: 3rd Edition

Publication Date: 1974

ISBN: 0709145586

Cover: Hard Cover without Dust Jacket – 192 pages

Comments: This is a second-hand book

This is Allbury’s story of his three years as a POW first in the labour camps of Singapore then on the Burma Railway. While in a Japanese freighter on route to Japan the ship was torpedoed, and 1300 POWs were left to die in the South China Sea. After six days aloft on a raft he was picked by the US submarine U.S.S. Barb.