Trial by Battle: Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics
David Piper
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October 1941. Twenty-one-year-old Alan Mart is posted to India and taken under the wing of the dogmatic, overbearing Acting-Captain Sam Holl. Following the Japanese advance on Singapore, the men are deployed to Malaya. What follows is a quietly shattering and searingly authentic depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare and the indiscriminate nature of conflict.
Based on David Piper's own wartime experience in South East Asia, this new edition of a 1959 classic includes a contextual introduction from IWM which sheds new light on the dramatic true events that so influenced its author.
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Read MorePraise for Trial by Battle: Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics
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A tremendous rediscovery of a brilliant novel. Extremely well-written, its effects are both sophisticated and visceral. Remarkable. - William BoydDavid Piper's moving, wholly convincing, and deeply personal account of the muddle and terror of the 1941-42 Malayan campaign will stay with the reader for a very long time. The denouement is one of the most powerful in all Second World War fiction. - Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with DestinyIt's wonderful to see these four books given a new lease of life because all of them are classic novels from the Second World War written by those who were there, experienced the fear, anguish, pain and excitement first-hand and whose writings really do shine an incredibly vivid light onto what it was like to live and fight through that terrible conflict. - James Holland, Historian, author and TV Presenter
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