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Description of  The Missing Years: A POW's Story from Changi to Hellfire Pass: 80th Anniversary Edition (updated 2021)

A Secret Memoir of Living Hell ... Revisited. Capt Hugh Pilkington enjoyed the full and fun life of a rubber planter in pre-war Malaya. Then war broke out and he found himself fighting in Johor. Shot by a sniper, he was hospitalised in Singapore, only for the hospital to be overrun by the Japanese in a horrific massacre. As a POW he was soon sent to labour on the Death Railway in Thailand. Then, 60 years later,his son Paul retraced his nightmarish steps with best-selling travel writer travel Stuart Lloyd with some really surprising findings and encounters along the way. Read more