Jungle Journal Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-1945 By Frank Williams, By Ronald Williams

Jungle Journal

Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-1945

By Frank Williams, By Ronald Williams

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
240 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $27.95 (US $27.95) (CA $30.95)
Publication Date: June 2013
ISBN 9780752487212
Rights: US & CA

The History Press (Jun 2013)
Spellmount

Overview

This is the story of a young Royal Artillery officer, Lieutenant Ronald Williams, who was held as a prisoner of war in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies from 1942–45. It is a true account of the alternate horror and banality of daily life, and the humor that helped the men survive the beatings, deprivation, and death of comrades. Told through the diary and papers of Williams and others, Jungle Journal includes many cartoons and poems produced by the prisoners, as well as extracts from the original Jungle Journal, a newspaper created by the men under the noses of their guards. Ronald Williams was the "editor" of this potentially fatal "publication." Jungle Journal describes the survival of hope even in desperate straits, and is a testament to those men whose courage and fortitude were tested to the limit under the tropical sun.