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You’ll Die in Singapore

You’ll Die in Singapore

Author(s): Charles McCormac

Location(s): Australia, Indonesia, Singapore

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): World War 2

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Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew that if he did not escape he would die. With sixteen others he broke out of Pasir Panjang camp and began an epic two-thousand-mile escape from the island of Singapore, through the jungles of Indonesia to Australia.

With no compass and no map, and only the goodwill of villagers and their own wits to rely on, the British and Australian POWs’ escape took a staggering five months and only two out of the original seventeen men survived.

You’ll Die in Singapore is Charles McCormac’s compelling true account of one of the most horrifying and amazing escapes in World War Two. It is a story of courage, endurance and compassion, and makes for a very gripping read.

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I felt quite humbled reading this, as the determination and harshness of the undertaking, again and again felt real and scary at a very difficult time in world history.

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