A Cool Head in Hell - Harry Silman

Dr Harry Silman’s WW2 diaries, detailing life as a POW tending to fellow combatants during forced labour on the Burma Railway. A Cool Head in Hell is a compelling historical narrative based on Harry Silman’s diaries, comprising one of the most comprehensive accounts by a POW under the Japanese to survive WWII.Silman joined the British Army in 1939 as a medical officer. In 1940, he was one of the last soldiers to be shipped out during the mass retreat from Dunkirk. In 1942, his division was assigned... Zobrazit více