You'll Die in Singapore: The True Account of One of the Most Amazing POW Escapes in WWII
Weakend 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 oth…
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