October 1941. Twenty-one-year-old Alan Mart is posted to India, and soon after the Japanese advance on Singapore is deployed to Malaya. What follows is a quietly shattering and searingly authentic depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare and the futility of war.
Four iconic and influential depictions of the Second World War through the novel are reissued here by the Imperial War Museum, with historian introductions set to contextualise each informatively.
