Darya Silman’s Reviews > In the Shadow of Death: The Story of a Medic on the Burma Railway 1942-45 > Status Update

Exceptional memoir. Easy to read in matters of language and story-telling, hard to read emotionally. I don't know why it didn't attract attention at the year of it publication, 2006.

Memoir was written in 1946 by the Welshman who surrended to Japanese on Singapore island in 1942 and endured all sufferings of a POW possible...