A Magic Shadow Show

by Jack P. King

A Magic Shadow show is the autobiography of a survivor of the Death Railway that was built by the Japanese during the Second World War with a labour force of Allied prisoners of war and Asiatic coolies. The death toll from tropical diseases, harsh treatment and starvation rations was terribly high. Japan had refused to sign the convention observed by other countries which laid down the conditions under which prisoners of war were to be treated and was guilty of the most heinous cruelty in the inhuman disregard with which their helpless prisoners were treated.. This splendid personal account of what he saw and experienced is not as might be expected all gloom and desperation. As well as the tears you will inevitably be moved by, there are moments when you will laugh out loud at the comical passages. The book briefly covers childhood in a seaside town in a family of nine; time as a boy soldier and some years spent in Australia with wife and three sons as a pound a head immigrants. Be warned, you may find this book hard to put down.

295 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 3, 2015