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Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Hardback Book and Dust Jacket Condition: Almost as new. There is a little rubbing bottom spine end. Both the courage and the inhumanity displayed during wartime are chronicled in these three diaries penned by Ray Parkin, who served during World War II. Engaging narratives and pictures detail his experience on the "HMAS Perth in the Sunda Strait battle with the Japanese naval force that eventually sunk his ship. Also recounted are Parkin's 15 months as a prisoner of war, during which he helped construct the Burma-Siam railway. Details of his final 12 months of captivity in a crowded tramp steamer reveal the endurance of soldiers who survived submarine attacks and weathered a typhoon. These stories provide a single man's perspective on the war but also offer insight into the Japanese way of thinking and the traumas of combat. The book is a not a mere chronicle of human cruelty and misery, but holds implicitly a commentary on human nature that is relevant outside the camp still. Ray Parkin's classic wartime trilogy, originally published in the 1960s, has been out of print for many years. Now eagerly sought after, it will be available for the first time in a single volume. Out of the Smoke, with an introduction by Laurens van der Post, tells of Ray's experience as Action Chief Quartermaster in HMAS Perth engaging an overwhelming Japanese naval force and being finally sunk by gunfire and torpedoes at midnight. Into the Smother tells direct from Ray's diary of some fifteen months building the Burma-Siam [Thailand] Railway as a POW with Weary Dunlop under the Imperial Japanese Army. The Sword and the Blossom tells of the last twelve months of captivity: of transport to Japan in a derelict tramp steamer; of submarine attacks; of weathering typhoons with open hatches; of working in a coal mine under the Inland Sea at Ohama on the shores of Honshu until the advent of the two atomic bombs (one just to the north, the other just to the south) finally freeing POWs. Ray Parkin is the author of the award winning H.M. Bark Endeavour 951pp Book has some illustrations and would make a perfect gift. Nº de ref. del artículo: 388

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