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Trial by Battle

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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.

©2019 David Piper, Imperial War Museums (P)2019 Headline Publishing Group Ltd 20th Century Action & Adventure Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction War & Military War Singapore
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Never heard of this book or author before and a revelation. Very powerful and very authentic tale of a callow youth being thrown into a war he is too innocent and naive to really comprehend fully. A very interesting insight into life in the Indian army for a British officer. Brutal - but stays with you.

Brilliant.

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