Half A Banana - Peter Kemmis Betty

The diary of a Gurkha officer imprisoned by the Japanese during World War Two. Amidst starvation, disease and brutality, the creation and tending of vegetable gardens became a vital lifeline, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. 'Half A Banana' tells the unusual wartime story of Peter Kemmis Betty and Alec Ogilvie, childhood friends who as Gurkha officers found themselves captured by the Japanese in 1942 and marched to Changi prisoner-of-war camp in Singapore. Two of the few whoÂ... Zobrazit více